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Ankober
Ankober, formerly known as Ankobar, is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, Ankober is perched on the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands at an elevation of about 2,465 meters (8,100 ft). It is 40 kilometers (25 mi) to the east of Debre Birhan and about 90 miles (140 km) northeast of Addis Ababa.
Ankober was formerly the capital of the Ethiopian kingdom of Shewa. Buildings that survive from the Shewa period include the Kidus Mikael church, built by Sahle Selassie. According to Philip Briggs, all that survives of Menelik's palace, which he had built on the site of his father's palace, is "one long stone-and-mortar wall measuring some 1.5m high." Briggs comments that it is "difficult to say why this one wall should have survived virtually intact when the rest of the palace crumbled into virtual oblivion." Ankober is also known as where the endemic Ankober serin was first observed by ornithologists in 1979.
History
Ankober may have formerly been known as Gorobela.
Ankober (woreda)
Ankober is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Located at the eastern edge of the Ethiopian highlands in the Semien Shewa Zone, Ankober is bordered on the south by Asagirt, on the west by Basona Werana, on the north by Termaber, and on the east by the Afar Region. Towns in Ankober include Aliyu Amba, Ankober, Gorgo and Haramba.
Roads in this Ankober include one built in June 1985 to link the village of Dinki with the rest of the woreda, as part of a "Food-for-Work" program to help victims of the 1984-1985 famine. Until the road was completed, Dinki could only be reached by a two-day mule ride from Debre Berhan down steep mountain slopes. Three years after the road had been completed, two water mills had been established at the village, as well as new fruit plantations and the traditional cotton spinning and weaving industry had been revived.
Demographics
Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 76,510, an increase of 14.09% over the 1994 census, of whom 38,790 are men and 37,720 women; 4,403 or 5.75% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 672.80 square kilometers, Ankober has a population density of 113.72, which is less than the Zone average of 115.3 persons per square kilometer. A total of 18,274 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.19 persons to a household, and 17,633 housing units. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 92.73% reporting that as their religion, while 7.15% of the population said they were Muslim.
Ankober (meteorite)
Ankober is an H chondrite meteorite that fell to earth on July 7, 1942 in Shewa, Ethiopia.
Classification
It is classified as H4-ordinary chondrite.
