Mek'ele

Mekelle or Mekele formerly the capital of Enderta awraja in Tigray, is today the capital town of Tigray National Regional country. It is placed around 780 kilometres north of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, with an elevation of 2,254 metres above sea degree. Administratively, Mekelle is taken into consideration a Special Zone that is divided into seven sub-towns. Mekelle is the economic, cultural, and political hub of northern Ethiopia.

Mekelle is believed to have developed from a 13th century hamlet known as Enda Meseqel, turning into a town through the early nineteenth century, whilst ras Wolde Selassie of Enderta made Antalo his seat of electricity, and the vicinity of Mekelle forty kilometres to the north his recreational middle. In the tax records of atse Tewodros II, Mekelle appears as a tributary district within Enderta with a negarit of its very own. The credit score for Mekelle's growth right into a regional capital is going to atse Yohannes IV who made Mekelle political capital of his increasing nation. He ought to have selected the location for its strategic proximity each to rich agricultural regions and to the Afar salt country. Mekelle's function on the direction to Shewa, the electricity base of Yohannes's important rival Menelik could have been another aspect.