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The City of Harar is an ancient and holy city. Always an important trading centre, the city is famous for its ancient buildings, its great city walls, and as a centre of learning and Muslim scholarship. The city is well known for its superb handicrafts that include woven textiles, basketware, silverware and handsomely bound books, and Harar has been a place of pilgrimage from all over the world.
The many
centuries of culture and Urbanity have left innumerable historical
mementos and relics the gentle, peaceful and ambient climate is
extremely inviting to the visitor.
The war memorial at the Aw Ezeen cemetery erected in memory of British and Italian soldires who died in the world war II and the museums are but a few examples of the many interesting historical sites in Harar.
. . . The palace itself is, as Clapperton* describes the Fellatah Sultan's state hall, a mere shed, a long, single storied, windowless barn of rough stone and reddish clay, with no other insignia but a thin coat of whitewash over the door. This is the royal and wazirial distinction at Harar, were no lesser man may stucco the wall of his house. The courtyard was about eighty yards long . . . Burton 1855AD . . . Coming SooN! |
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