Lasta

This article covers the district in Ethiopia. For the South Tyrolean actress see Ulrike Lasta , for the Serbian training aircraft see Utva Lasta .

Lasta ( Old Ethiopian : ላስታ lāstā ) is a historical district in what is now northern central Ethiopia .

It is also the district in which the historically very important city of Lalibela is located, the former capital of the Abyssinian Empire during the Zagwe dynasty and home to eleven medieval stone churches.

Lasta was first mentioned in the 14th century, according to historians, although apparently it was populated long before that. In the 18th century, the Czech Franciscan Remedius Prutky listed Lasta as one of those 22 Ethiopian provinces that were still directly under the emperor. However, he highlighted Lasta as one of the six provinces he considered great and truly worthy of the name "Kingdom" . Lasta bordered Begemder to the west and Wag to the east .

See also

• Hamasia
• Ogaden

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1. ^ GWB Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704 , (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 100
2. ^ JH Arrowsmith-Brown (trans.), Prutky's Travels in Ethiopia and other Countries with notes by Richard Pankhurst (London: Hakluyt Society, 1991), p. 131