Debre Werk

Debre Work is a small metropolis in western Ethiopia. Located inside the East Gojjam of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 6°52′N 35°31′E with an elevation of 2489 meters above sea degree. The settlement is understood for its church and a hilltop monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, around which the network grew. It is the larger of two towns in Enarj Enawga woreda. An early point out of Debre Work is round 1620, whilst the Tulema Oromo were stated to have devastated Gojjam as a ways as Debre Work.

Its subsequent mention is in 1684, in an itinerary of Emperor Iyasu I. Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia met with Ras Ali II here within the mid-nineteenth century, describing the metropolis as sitting on a round hill with the church at its summit; the metropolis encircling the church almost prolonged all the way down to the base of the hill. A debtera, who became head of the church, additionally seemed to be the civil head of the town. Charles Beke, who visited Debre Work 25 April 1842, defined the town was now not most effective positioned on a conical eminence, located the hill at the fork of two small streams Tazza and Zinjut.