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Harar

, Harrer
a city in E Ethiopia: former capital of the Muslim state of Adal. Pop.: 96 000 (2005 est.)
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Harar

 

(also Harer), a city in eastern Ethiopia; capital of Harar Province. Population, 51,000 (1975). Harar is connected by highway with the cities of Dire Dawa and Addis Ababa. It is a center for trade in coffee and coffee processing and for trade in grain, fruit, and cattle. Cottage industries specialize in the production of metal ware, pottery, and tanned hides.

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The road to Ethiopia's easternmost coffee province of Harar is so basic that it barely can qualify being described as a road.
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We are then transported back to Ethiopia in 1970, where Lilly makes her home in a dirt compound in the city of Harar. After a botched female circumcision, she falls in love with Dr Aziz, who is also an outsider because of his ebony skin.
The colt, born on January 13, is out of the winning Lagunas mare Hosea, dam of several winners including last season's German St Leger second Harar.
This slightly bizarre experience was probably worth my entire trip to Ethiopia's ancient walled city of Harar. In fact, feeding the hyenas is perhaps one of the most locally famous attractions for visitors.
Intriguing scraps of manuscript continue to surface at rare intervals, and even a photo, very likely authentic, of Rimbaud in Aden (Yemen), where he spent much of the 1880s leading expeditions to Harar in Ethiopia, and beyond, trading in arms and other goods.
Elms celebrates the Ethiopian Christmas in January then visits Harar, home to the amazing Hyena Men.
After receiving a Muslim education in Harar, Menghistu Lemma studied in Addis Ababa and in London at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London School of Economics.
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