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  TSANA - LoveToKnow Article on TSANA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The average annual rainfall in the Tsana catchment area is estimated at 33/4 ft., and-the volume of water received by the lake yearly at 6,572,000,000 of cubic metres.
Tsana has been identified with the Coloe Palus of the ancients, which although placed 12 too far south by Ptolemy was described by him as a chief reservoir of the Egyptian Nile and the source of the Astapos, which was certainly the Blue Nile.
By the Portuguese of the r7th century the lake was styled Dambia, 1899-1902, iii.
36.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TS/TSANA.htm   (628 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Geography of Africa
Lake Mai-Ndombe is a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Lake Ngami is a lake in Botswana north of the Kalahari desert.
Lakes of the broad type are of moderate depth, the deepest sounding in Lake Victoria being under 50 fathoms (90 m).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geography-of-Africa   (6205 words)

  
 Geography of Africa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by (A lake in northwestern Ethiopia; thelargest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile) Lake Tsana.
North of the Congo basin and separated from it by a broad undulation of the surface is the basin of (A lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river) Lake Chad - a flat-shored, shallow lake filled principally by the Shad coming from the south-east.
Lakes of the broad type are of moderate depth, the deepest sounding in (The largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River) Lake Victoria being under 50 fathoms.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/geography_of_africa.htm   (3322 words)

  
 The Distribution of African Fresh-water Fishes, by George A. Boulenger
Lake Tsana, which is now the source of the Blue Nile, has recently yielded a large collection of fishes, showing a great variety of Cyprinids, either endemic or identical with species occurring in the eastern watershed, and closely allied to those of Palestine, but with no special Nile affinities.
Lake Rukwa has recently been explored by Dr. Fülleborn, but the fishes, which have been referred to eleven species, belonging to widely distributed genera, have not been studied with a sufficient comparison-material: they appear to be mostly endemic forms.
Lake Mwero has representatives of fourteen species, five of which are endemic, the remainder being found also in the Congo or in the Zambesi, or in both.
www.wku.edu /~smithch/biogeog/BOUL1905.htm   (8910 words)

  
 TSANA - Online Information article about TSANA
river, and the Abai or Blue Niie which issues from the lake, are regarded as one and the same stream and a current is observable from the inlet to the outlet.
volume of water received by the lake yearly at 6,572,000,000 of cubic metres.
discharge from the lake is, it appears, little greater than in the dry season, the additional water received going to raise the lake level.
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 Lake Tana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Lake Tana (also spelled T'ana; older spellings include "Tsana" and "Dambea") is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia.
The lake has a number of islands, whose numbers vary depending on the level of the lake; it has fallen about 6 feet in the last 400 years.
The body of Yekuno Amlak is interred in the monastery of St. Stephen on the isle of Daga; other Emperors whose tombs are on Daga include Dawit I, Zara Yaqob, Za Dengel and Fasilidos.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lake-Tana.htm   (308 words)

  
 28. Exchange of notes between the United Kingdom and Italy respecting concessions for a barrage at Lake Tsana and a ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Exchange of notes between the United Kingdom and Italy respecting concessions for a barrage at Lake Tsana and a railway across Abyssinia from Eritrea to Italian Somaliland.
Tsana, they are also prepared to recognise an exclusive Italian economic influence in the west of Abyssinia and in the whole of the territory to be crossed by the above-mentioned railway.
It is understood that, in so far as is possible and is compatible with the paramount interests of Egypt and the Sudan, the scheme in contemplation should be so framed and executed as to afford appropriate satisfaction to the economic need of these populations.
www.fao.org /docrep/w7414b/w7414b0u.htm   (807 words)

  
 ipedia.com: History of Ethiopia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
He accompanied the king on a warlike expedition round Lake Tsana, moving South round the eastern shore, crossing the genuine Blue Nile (Abai) close to its point of issue from the lake and returning via the western shore.
Emperor Theodore II was born Lij (= Mr) Kassa in Kwara, a small district of Western Amhara, in 1818.
His father was a small local chief, and his uncle was governor of the districts of Dembea, Kwara and Chelga between Lake Tsana and the undefined northwetern frontier.
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 E&E RPCVs — Review: Unknown Ethiopia
One year later, in 1917, he was one of the first to take the train from Djibouti on its newly extended leg into Addis Ababa, where he got to meet and present honors to the newly crowned Empress Zauditu and her regent, Ras Tafari Makonnen (later Emperor Haile Selassie).
They hoped that the survey would demonstrate to Yasu that the higher level of water caused by a dam would not damage the area’s prized churches and farmland, and they hoped he would be persuaded to sign the agreement.
They still practice mutilation – cutting off the hands of thieves, etc. The big tree in the center of the market is the usual hanging place and you never quite know when you may not see a body hanging there, where it is left for a week or more for the birds to pick clean.
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 TSCHAIKOVSKY, P. I. - LoveToKnow Article on TSCHAIKOVSKY, P. I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
TSCHAIKOVSKY, P. - LoveToKnow Article on TSCHAIKOVSKY, P. and this name in the slightly altered form of Dembea was in use until towards the close of the igth century.
At last something like success came to TschaIkovsky with the production of The Oprisc/inik, in which he had incorporated much of the best of The Vojevoda.
The Thirdor Polish Symphony, four sets of songs, the E-flat quartet (dedicated to the memory of Lamb), the ballet The Swan Lake, and the Francesca da Rimini fantasia, all belong to the period of the late seventiesthe last being made up of operatic fragments.
41.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TS/TSCHAIKOVSKY_P_I_.htm   (2417 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | Desert dreams
Thabet observed that the British believed that the damming of Lake Tsana would threaten the cotton industry in Sudan which was monopolised by several British firms.
The Times did warn that the vast lake the project would create in the Qatara depression would have a major impact on the climate.
It concluded, however, that while it would be intriguing to study this prospect, the chances were that it would not detract from the benefits Egyptians would gain from the abundant electricity that would be at their disposal.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/572/chrncls.htm   (2764 words)

  
 TSARSKOYO SELO - LoveToKnow Article on TSARSKOYO SELO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
By many Abyssinians the lake is called Tana, but the correct Amharic form is Tsana.
The British Blue Book, Egypt, No. 2, 1904, contains a special report (with maps) upon Lake Tsana by Mr C. Dupuis, of the Egyptian Irrigation Service.
italiana for December 1908 Captain A. Tancredi gives the results (also with maps) of an Italian expedition to the lake.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TS/TSARSKOYO_SELO.htm   (1192 words)

  
 The Old Congo
The parts of Africa visited, explored and discovered by these men included the kingdom of the Congo, Timbuktu, the East Coast of Africa, Nubia, the Kingdom of Angola, Abyssinia and the Lake Tsana region.
The European rediscovery of the Congo and neighboring territories began in the middle of the nineteenth century.
The Scotch Protestant missionary, Livingstone, explored the regions of the big lakes and in 1871, Livingstone and Stanley met on the shore of Lake Tanganyika.
www.nbufront.org /html/MastersMuseums/JHClarke/Contemporaries/LumumbaCongo.html   (2155 words)

  
 Tough Talk over a Defunct Treaty: The Case of the 1929 Nile Waters Agreement
[xviii] This acquiescence is conveyed by Ethiopia’s compliance with the treaty provisions in seeking Egyptian and Sudanese consent during the Lake Tsana negotiations, and the non-utilization of the waters in contravention of article 3.
The succession, validity and therefore applicability of the 1929 agreement and the 1902 agreement have and continue to dominate the heated dialogue involving the utilization of the Blue Nile Sub-basin.
There are no other agreements on the utilization of the waters of Lake Victoria directly involving all of the riparian states.
www.tigrai.org /News/Articles2004/TheNileByYacob.html   (5954 words)

  
 Grace Connection
Swimmers in the lakes shared the water with wild animals, which included families of hippos.
Favorite lakes were Lake Bishofto, where the royal family vacationed, and Lake Kalole, rarely visited and not found on modern maps.
Whether it was testing the Dead Sea for saltiness, swimming in Lake Galilee or in later years in the Olympic pool at La Sierra University, Manuel went swimming whenever the opportunity presented itself.
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 Apollonius.Net - Ark Of The Covenant
In about 370 BCE it was taken south along the banks of the Nile to what is now Khartoum, Sudan, and from there up the Blue Nile River to Lake Tsana, Ethiopia.
This is a large lake, like the Great Salt Lake or the Aral Sea, and has several habitable islands in the middle.
And as a consequence of this odyssey, a large number of Ethiopians around Lake Tsana converted to Judaism.
www.apollonius.net /covenant.html   (622 words)

  
 The Nation, 09/08/1926 - Abyssinia Appeals to the League
Great Britain has long desired to control the waters of the Blue Nile for the irrigation of her Sudan cotton fields by a dam at the headwaters of the river, which happened to be Lake Tsana in Abyssinia.
In return Italy would be permitted to build a railway across Abyssinia connecting her territories of Eritrea and Somaliland.
...It imposes no obligation on anyone except the British Government, who in return for the Italian undertaking in regard to Lake Tsana engage not to compete or to support competition with Italian enterprise in the regions specified...
www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v123i3192_27.htm   (872 words)

  
 August 1930 Herald of Christ's Kingdom
Lake Tsana lies high in the northern mountains, about 12 degrees north of the equator.
The lake has an area of about 1,100 square miles and reaches a depth of 250 feet.
"When the sands of the Sudan are made fertile by the waters of Lake Tsana, immense cotton plantations are planned, to occupy the thousands of square miles of land between the Temple of Syene and the border of Ethiopia, now Abyssinia.
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 A Confederate Soldier in Egypt: Appendix I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The country bordering this lake is tropical in its vegetation, yielding the orange, lemon, lime, and banana ; and here, as well as far into the surrounding country, the products both of the temperate and tropic zones can be raised in abundance.
After passing through the rich cereal region of Abyssinia, you come to Lake Tsana, at the head-waters of the Blue Nile, where the coffee-plant, lemon, citron, orange, and banana, are found in tropical abundance.
Among the ruins of Axium, an ancient city near Adua the present capital of Abyssinia, are still to be seen some relics of a mighty but forgotten past, when Ethiopia was one of the great powers of the earth, and Solomon in all his glory “ did not disdain to entertain her queen.”
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Its creation was driven by a desire for an easier and more convenient way to see lake conditions before setting out for the water.
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 The source of the Blue Nile a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The source of the Blue Nile a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara with a note on the religion, customs, etc. of Abyssinia.
HAYES, ARTHUR J. The source of the Blue Nile a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara with a note on the religion, customs, etc. of Abyssinia.
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 Lake Tsana from LiveJournal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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