Gudar River

The Gudar is a river of central Ethiopia.[1] It is a left-bank tributary of the Abay or Blue Nile; tributaries of the Gudar include the Dabissa and the Taranta. The Gudar River has a drainage area about 7,011 square kilometers in size.[2] It was bounded by the historical Endagabatan province.[3]

In the 1600s, emperor Susenyos I and his troops traversed this river to meet Hadiya leader Sidi Mohammed at the Battle of Hadiya.[4]

A Greek resident built the first bridge over the Gudar in 1897.[5]

See also

Notes
  1. Abbay. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
  2. "Tana & Beles Integrated Water Resources Development: Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Vol.1", World Bank, 2 May 2008 (accessed 5 May 2009)
  3. Endagabatan. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
  4. Lindahl, Bernhard. Local History of Ethiopia (PDF). Nordic Africa Institute. p. 9.
  5. Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie University, 1968), p. 299

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