Tigray Province

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Tigray_Province

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_region
gptkbp:area	about 80,000 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy	gptkb:Eritrea gptkb:Wollo_Province gptkb:Begemder_Province gptkb:Gonder_Province
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Mekelle
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Ethiopia
gptkbp:dissolved	1995
gptkbp:established	pre-20th century
gptkbp:ethnicGroup	gptkb:Tigrayans
gptkbp:governedBy	gptkb:Ras
gptkbp:historicalEvent	gptkb:Tigray_War_(region) Battle of Adwa
gptkbp:historicalRegion	Tigray
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Tigray Province
gptkbp:ISO_3166-2_code	gptkb:ET-TI_(historical)
gptkbp:locatedIn	northern Ethiopia
gptkbp:mainLanguage	Tigrinya
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Adwa gptkb:Adigrat gptkb:Shire Axum
gptkbp:notableLandmark	gptkb:Debre_Damo_Monastery gptkb:Obelisk_of_Axum Churches of Lalibela (nearby region)
gptkbp:partOf	Ethiopian Empire
gptkbp:population	about 3 million (1990s)
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Ethiopian_Orthodox_Christianity
gptkbp:replacedBy	gptkb:Tigray_Region
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Tigray_Region
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6