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 [...]

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