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The eight wonder of the World (966 words) |
 | After the decline of the Axumite empire, lamenting their lost grandeur, Ethiopias rulers retreated with their Christian subjects to the lofty escarpment of the central uplands. |
| There, protected by mountain battlements more formidable than anything the hand of man could fashion, they were able to repel an increasingly expansionist and militant Islam trapping and confusing their enemies in the precipitous maze of valleys that intersects the high plateau. |
| Lalibela was born in Roha in the second half of the twelfth century, the youngest son of the royal line of the Zagwe dynasty, which then ruled over much of northern Ethiopia. |
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Bale Province, Ethiopia at AllExperts (348 words) |
| The earlier Bale was a Muslim tributary kingdom to the Emperor of Ethiopia during the Solomonic dynasty, between Ifat and Hadiya. |
| The later Bale, named for the earlier one, was a province in the south-eastern part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Goba. |
| With the adoption of the constitution of 1995, Bale was divided between the Oromia and Somali Regions of Ethiopia. |
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