Local history of Ethiopia
Environment and events in the countryside of Ethiopia, mainly from the early 1800s and onwards. Compiled by Bernhard Lindahl.
This work, in short:
- Consists of extracts from external sources, sorted geographically and chronologically, shedding light on places rarely mentioned in print.
- Makes contents of various published sources searchable.
- In all, more than 4.000 pages on 175 pdf files.
Local history in Ethiopia / Bernhard Lindahl
General information
Alphabetic listing of the pdf documents
The 2005 documents are the primary files. In 2008 the work was updated with new names and additional details. These latter documents are lists of place names and their geographical coordinates and provide little information about the actual history.
More about the compiler
Words of remembrance for Bernhard Lindahl (1925-2015) can be read in Swedish in Tenaestelin 2016:1 (p. 28), the journal of the Swedish-Ethiopian Association.