TheGudaris a river of centralEthiopia.[1]It is a left-banktributaryof the Abay orBlue 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 historicalEndagabatanprovince.[3]
In the 1600s, emperorSusenyos Iand his troops traversed this river to meet Hadiya leaderSidi Mohammedat theBattle of Hadiya.[4]
AGreekresident built the first bridge over the Gudar in 1897.[5]
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edit- ^Abbay.Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
- ^"Tana & Beles Integrated Water Resources Development: Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Vol.1",World Bank, 2 May 2008 (accessed 5 May 2009)
- ^Endagabatan.Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
- ^Lindahl, Bernhard.Local History of Ethiopia(PDF).Nordic Africa Institute. p. 9.
- ^Richard Pankhurst,Economic History of Ethiopia(Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie University, 1968), p. 299
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