Nefas Meewcha

Nefas Mewcha is a metropolis in northern Ethiopia. placed in the Debub Gondar quarter of the Amhara area, an elevation of 3120 meters above sea level. it is the workplace of Lay Gayint woreda. Nefas Mewcha lies on the main Debre Tabor - Weldiya motorway, supplying it with an all-year hyperlink to the Zonal capital of Weldiya. one of the earliest mentions of Nefas Mewcha is within the Royal chronicle of Emperor Susenyos, wherein the Emperor stopped for the duration of his marketing campaign towards the revolt Yona'el in 1620.

The Scots explorer James Bruce, who visited Ethiopia in the early 1770s, defined Nefas Mewcha as "in the farthest limits" of the province of Begemder on the time, with the Wollo Oromo ruling the territories "at the back of this". in the last years of his reign, emperor Iyoas I fought a war in opposition to the governor of Begemder, Ya Mariam Bariaw, who had killed his uncle Birale in an earlier warfare. Ya Mariam Bariaw changed into defeated, and significantly wounded; he fled to the close by Wollo, who handed Ya Mariam Bariaw returned to the 1/2-Oromo Emperor for punishment. by 1964, Nefas Mewcha become the administrative center of Gayint awraja.