Wollo

E455093

Wollo is a historic region in northern Ethiopia known for its cultural diversity, Islamic and Christian heritage, and significant role in the history of the Amhara people.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wollo canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region ⓘ
historic region ⓘ
administrativeCenter Dessie ⓘ
borderedBy Afar Region ⓘ
North Shewa ⓘ
Oromia Region ⓘ
Tigray Region ⓘ
linked to: Tigray region
country Ethiopia ⓘ
culturalRegionOf Afar culture ⓘ
Amhara culture ⓘ
Oromo culture ⓘ
linked to: Oromo people
ethnicGroup Afar ⓘ
Amhara ⓘ
Oromo ⓘ
linked to: Oromo people
formerProvinceStatus Ethiopian province ⓘ
hasCity Dessie ⓘ
Hayq ⓘ
Kobo ⓘ
Kombolcha ⓘ
Woldiya ⓘ
hasLake Lake Hayq ⓘ
hasMonastery Hayq Estifanos Monastery ⓘ
hasMountainRange Abuna Yosef ⓘ
hasSubregion North Wollo Zone ⓘ
South Wollo Zone ⓘ
historicalCapital Dessie ⓘ
historicalEvent Ethiopian Civil War ⓘ
Ethiopian famines of the 1970s ⓘ
historicalRegionOf Amhara people ⓘ
historicalRole center of Amhara political history ⓘ
center of Islamic scholarship in Ethiopia ⓘ
knownFor Christian heritage ⓘ
Islamic heritage ⓘ
Sufi orders ⓘ
cultural diversity ⓘ
famine history ⓘ
poetic traditions ⓘ
religious coexistence ⓘ
traditional music ⓘ
language Afar language ⓘ
Amharic ⓘ
Oromo language ⓘ
linked to: Oromo
locatedIn northern Ethiopia ⓘ
linked to: Northern Ethiopia
partOf Amhara Region ⓘ
Ethiopian Highlands ⓘ
religion Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
timePeriod medieval to modern Ethiopia ⓘ
traversedBy Blue Nile basin ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amhara → associatedRegion → Wollo ⓘ
subject linked to: Amhara (commonly reported)
Scioa → borders → Wollo ⓘ
Shewa → borders → Wollo ⓘ
Hararghe → borderedBy → Wollo ⓘ
Ejeta, Wollo → locatedIn → Wollo ⓘ
subject linked to: Ejeta, Wollo, Ethiopian Empire
Begemder → borders → Wollo ⓘ
Shewa → borderedBy → Wollo ⓘ
subject linked to: Shewa region of Ethiopia
Shoa → borderedBy → Wollo ⓘ
Shewan kingdom → borderedBy → Wollo ⓘ