Institute of Ethiopian Studies - Addis Ababa University Press
Abstract
The town of Gondar, in Northern Ethiopia, has won the prestigious status of a classified
UNESCO world heritage site, in 26 October 1979, mainly because in it stands the castle
compound locally known as the Atsie Fasil Ghimb. This palace compound encapsulates
much of the country’s political and religious history between the mid-seventeenth century
and the mid-nineteenth century, when Gondar was the capital of the Christian kingdom of
Abyssinia
