Bahir Dar

Bahir Dar is the former capital of Gojjam province and the modern-day capital of the Amhara Regional State in Ethiopia. Administratively, Bahir Dar is a Special Zone. Bahir Dar is one of the main vacationer destinations in Ethiopia, with a diffusion of points of interest in the close by Lake Tana and Blue Nile river. The city is known for its huge avenues lined with palm trees and a spread of colourful plant life. In 2002 it turned into provided the UNESCO Cities for Peace Prize for addressing the challenges of speedy urbanization. Originally the agreement changed into called Bahir Giyorgis. In the nineteenth century, Bahir Dar changed into visited by way of Belgian, French, British and Italian tourists, who defined it as an alternative as a village or a metropolis.

The Italian traveler Mario Alamanni expected its population among 1,200 and 1,600. During the early 20th century, the British, needing to assemble a barrage at the opening of Lake Tana, dispatched several look at teams, including the ones of Dupis, Grabham and Black and Cheesman. In 1930 the Ethiopian Government despatched to Bahir Dar its own team of professionals, who described Bahir Dar as a village with giant trading activity, with a populace from the interior as well as from Lake Tana ports such as Zege. At this time Bahir Dar became characterized through numerous traditional agreement areas, each of which was outstanding through the social role its participants occupied.