Ashangisee
| Ashangisee | ||
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| Geographical location | Tigray (region) ; Ethiopia | |
| Drain | without | |
| Location close to the shore | Korem | |
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 34 '50 " N , 39 ° 30' 0" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 2438 m | |
| surface | 20 km² | |
| length | 5 km | |
| width | 4 km | |
| Maximum depth | 25 m | |
The Lake Ashenge ( Amharic አሽንጌ ሐይቅ , Ashange Hayk ') is in the Tigray region of Ethiopia on 2438 meters above sea level located and has no outlet. According to the Statistical Abstract of Ethiopia 1967/68 , the lake is five kilometers long and four kilometers wide, with an area of 20 square kilometers.
history
On August 29, 1542, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi advanced victoriously against the Portuguese positions near Wofla on the south side of the lake in the Battle of Wofla , where he captured and killed the leader Cristóvão da Gama .
Another notable battle on the shores of the lake was the Battle of Ashenge on October 9, 1909, when Dejazmach Abate Bwalu defeated the rebel forces of Dejazmach Abraha Araya .
On April 3, 1936, thousands of soldiers of the Ethiopian army were killed with poison gas around Lake Ashangi. The soldiers were withdrawing from the Battle of Maychew during the Italo-Ethiopian War . When they withdrew, the Italians sprayed the area around the lake with mustard gas . On April 4, Emperor Haile Selassie I looked with despair at the terrible sight of the corpses of his army that surrounded the poisoned lake.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Water Resources and Irrigation Development in Ethiopia - IWMI ( Memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 701 kB)
- ↑ Harold G. Marcus, The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844-1913 , (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1995), p. 240
- ↑ AJ Barker. The Rape of Ethiopia , p. 105