Adigrat

Adigrat is a town and separate woreda inside the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia. It is placed in the Misraqawi Zone at longitude. Adigrat is the ultimate crucial Ethiopian town south of the border with Eritrea, and is considered to be a strategically vital gateway to Eritrea and the Red Sea. Adigrat became a part of Ganta Afeshum woreda earlier than a separate woreda turned into created for the town. Currently, Adigrat serves as the capital of the Eastern Tigray region. Adigrat is one of the maximum important cities of Tigray, which evolved from in advance political centers and camps of nearby governors.

Antalo, Aläqot and Adigrat were some of them. The decline of Antalo was observed by means of the upward thrust of Adigrat as any other outstanding, but quick-lived, capital of Tigray. It used to serve as the capital of Agame. Tradition attributes the starting place of the call Adigrat, which means "the us of a of farmland", to the then popular Tigrayan leader Akhadom. Adigrat appears to were below cultivation for a long time. It has a agreement history courting again at the least to the 14th century.