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254:, the capital of Tigray. The urge to control this fortified mountainous place has provoked frequent engagements among various Tigrayan chiefs since the 17th century. Hintalo flourished as a town in the last quarter of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.
419:. The Italians caught about 200 prisoners, a thousand head of cattle, and many rifles. The Italian askari lost 11 dead and 30 wounded, while 16 dead Tigrayans were counted on the battle site and 60 wounded were said to have been carried from there.
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and some 16,000 oxen, 8,000 cows, 8,000 goats, and 17,000 sheep were sold annually. On 9 October 1895, the
Italian Major Ameglio with six companies and two pieces of artillery attacked Ethiopian warriors under Ras
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Wolde
Selassie received annual taxes, reviewed troops and declared administrative re-organizations. His ambition to overthrow the Yejju dynasty induced him to undertake the necessary preparation from Hintalo.
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Parallel to the physical extension of the town, Hintalo's population grew rapidly in the beginning of the 19th century. Meanwhile, Hintalo emerged as the principal commercial center of Tigray, second only to
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in 2005, Hintalo has an estimated total population of 1,179 of whom 593 are men and 586 are women. The 1994 census reported it had a total population of 676 of whom 316 were men and 360 were women.
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Emperor Yohaness IV, and served as the Ethiopia's prime minister from 1872 to 1889. He married Emperor Yohanes's sister Empress Dinkinsh, with whom he had 3 children, who included
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435:. Currently, it is only a small town and the capital of the Hintalo subdistrict in the South-Eastern Tigray Zone. The population was estimated at 899 inhabitants in 2000.
352:. The latter succeeded Wolde Selassie as Governor of Tigray. Even the, Hintalo survived as an important market-center of the salt trade throughout the 19th century.
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intended to join a rebellion in southern Tigray, but they were defeated, and some of those from
Hintalo were driven over the precipices to their deaths.
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ambassador Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Haymat, who described it as a "fortified town". In 1678 Hintalo was the location of a battle; some of the prominent men of
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on 25–26 February 1868, led to the
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By 1880, most of the town was in ruins but the weekly market remained important for the area. During the 1890s, it was a notable source of
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September, 1805. By March 1810, it was described as the capital of Enderta Province. A later meeting at Hintalo between
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403:; for this, Dejazmach Kassai was later rewarded with a formidable quantity of supplies and material worth approximately
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with an elevation variously reported as 2050 to 2102 meters above sea level. It lies some 20 miles south of
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Geologists have named the very thick calcareous strata, which are very developed in Tigray, the
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Mikael Sehul of Tigray. Furthermore, one of the most insecure
Gondarine "shadow emperors",
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Tekle Giyorgis once took asylum in the same area. It was from Hintalo that
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Salt, Trade, and Urbanization: the Story of Mäqälä Town, 1872–1935
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