Their monastery still stood, he said, on an island in Lake Tana. It was about 200 miles northwest, on the way to Aksum. Ethiopia is landlocked, but Lake Tana is an inland sea: it covers 1,400 ...

The Lake Tana area was important in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in view of its role in maintaining the Christian faith against contemporary pressures, and the rise of the ...

If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely ... sits on an island in the northerly Lake Tana. Much of the nation’s forestland has been sacrificed to agriculture to feed ...