THE MEDIEVAL MOSQUES OF NORA ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN ETHIOPIA*
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- Identifier
- 482
- Title
- THE MEDIEVAL MOSQUES OF NORA ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN ETHIOPIA*
- Author
- STÉPHANE PRADINES See all items with this value
- Type
- Miscellaneous See all items with this value
- Description
- In April-May of 2008, a team led by François-Xavier Fauvelle and Bertrand Hirsch carried out excavations on the Muslim site of Nora (Fauvelle and Hirsch, 2008: 339-376). The author of the article was in charge of the excavation of the great mosque and the study of the others mosques on the site. Apart from Aksum, Nora was the first town ever excavated extensively in Ethiopia. Located 20km to the north-east of the current town of Shewa Robit (in the Shewa Region) near to the village of Wässiso, the Nora site is located midway between the high plateau and the flood plain of the River Awash at an depth of approximately 1300m (Fig. 1). The site was discovered in January 2007 during some surveys to recognize the evidence of hitherto medieval settlements only known in primary sources (Fauvelle and Hirsch, 2011). It was a ruined town which extended over several hectares (Fig. 2). The elevation of many of the walls, particularly those of the Great Mosque, has been preserved. The town also provides evidence of street networks and access routes, town walls, necropolis compounds and possibly hydraulic facilities……
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- Meftuh Shash
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