Debre Tabor

Debre Tabor is a city and a woreda in north-significant Ethiopia. Located within the Debub Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, approximately a hundred kilometers southeast of Gondar and 50 kilometers east of Lake Tana, this historical city has a latitude and longitude of 11°51′N 38°1′E with an elevation of 2,706 metres above sea level. The presence of at least forty eight springs inside the location contributed to the improvement of Debre Tabor. Authorities range over the facts of its founding.

Mordechai Abir states that it was based with the aid of Ras Ali I; but, Richard Pankhurst gives an in depth account of its basis by way of Ras Gugsa, and includes the lifestyle that the location was decided on with supernatural assist. In both case, Debre Tabor changed into the seat of the Regents of the Emperor inside the 18th and 19th centuries, from which periods several church buildings and the ruins of palaces survive. Debre Tabor changed into the capital of Ethiopia beneath two Emperors: Tewodros II, earlier than he moved the capital to Magdala; and Yohannes IV.