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See also:ADOWA (properly ADUA) , the See also:capital of See also:Tigre, See also:northern See also:Abyssinia, 145 M. N.E. of See also:Gondar and 17 M. E. by N. of Axum, the See also:ancient capital of Abyssinia. Adowa is built on the slope of a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill at an See also:elevation of 65oo ft., in the midst of a See also:rich agricultural See also:district. Being on the high road from See also:Massawa to central Abyssinia, it is a See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place of merchants from See also:Arabia and the See also:Sudan for the See also:exchange of See also:foreign merchandise with the products of the See also:country. During the See also:wars between the Italians and Abyssinia (1887-0) Adowa was on three or four occasions looted and burnt; but the churches escaped destruction. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the See also:Holy Trinity, one. of the largest in Abyssinia, contains numerous See also:wall-paintings of native See also:art. On a hill about 22 M. See also:north-See also:west of Adowa are the ruins of Fremona, the headquarters of the Portuguese See also:Jesuits who lived in Abyssinil during the 16th and 17th centuries. On the 1st of See also:March 1896, in the hills north of the See also:town, was fought the See also:battle of Adowa; in which the Abyssinians inflicted a crushing defeat on the See also:Italian forces (see See also:ITALY, See also:History, and ABYSSINIA, History).
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