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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 852 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMHARA , the central See also:

province of See also:Abyssinia. The See also:chief See also:town, See also:Gondar (q.v.), by which name the province is also known, was the See also:residence of the See also:negus negusti, or See also:emperor, of Abyssinia from the See also:middle ages up to 1854. The speech of the inhabitants, Amharic, which differs in several features from the dialects spoken in See also:Tigre and See also:Shoa, is the See also:official See also:language of Abyssinia.

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