David L. Appleyard, A Comparative Dictionary of the Agew Language, “Kuschitische Sprachstudien / Cushitic Language Studies” 24 (review)

Review of David L. Appleyard, A Comparative Dictionary of the Agew Language,“Kuschitische Sprachstudien / Cushitic Language Studies” 24, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2006, 200 pp

Complementary Oriental Cities, the Case of Harar and Dire Dawa (Eastern Ethiopia)

The article touches on a number of themes relevant to the topic of complementarity of cities. Two cities of Eastern Ethiopia are being considered, Harar, an ancient and religious centre of Islam, also called a holy city of Islam in the Horn of Africa, and Dire Dawa, founded as a railway station, which further developed into a commercial and industrial centre and a second chartered city of Ethiopia – after the capital city of Addis Ababa. Statistical data presented in the article show complementary character of both cities on the level of business and economic development, while cultural data answer the question on how two cities can be complementary in the cultural sphere of a society life, the final result of the article being a suggestion that complementarity can be observed not only as an economic, but also as a cultural phenomenon

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