Gudar River

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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^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

9°55′N37°56′E/ 9.917°N 37.933°E/9.917; 37.933

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[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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