King Lalibela

 From the time when the first European, Francisco Alvarez (visited the holy city between 1521 and 1525), travelers named the rock churches of Lalibela as:
• A “New Jerusalem”
• A “New Golgotha”
• The “Christian Citadel in the Mountains of Wondrous Ethiopia”
The Zagwe dynasty had come to authority in the eleventh century, one hundred years after Queen Judith (also called [...]

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