Characteristic landform in Ethiopia, known for being steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of villages, wells and their surrounding farmland.
1 The rains were late, and water scarce on the amba : the next day it rained.
2 Theodore on this retired to some huts on the amba , about 50 yards from the second gate.
3 The amba is well fortified by nature, and Theodore, to increase its strength, added some rude fortifications.
4 To the right, the sides of the amba rise like a huge wall; below is a giddy abyss.
5 Messengers now went backwards and forwards daily, sometimes twice in the same day, between the camp and the amba .
6 Seventy feet higher up there was a second hedge, and another gate opening on the flat summit of the amba .
7 Many of them had been for years confined on the amba , and had brought their families to reside near them.
8 He soon ignored him entirely, and the unfortunate man had to remain nearly two years, a semi-prisoner, on that amba .
9 The immediate vassals of the king are called amba raja; and for the subjects in general the word rayet has been adopted.
10 The road on nearing Magdala is more abrupt; one or two conical hills have to be crossed before the amba itself is reached.
11 At Islamgee several small villages had been erected by the peasants who cultivate the land for the Emperor, the chiefs, and soldiers of the amba .
12 Swedish-Danish Arla amba , which already owns 51 per cent of the shares, will pay 71 pence a share cash for the remainder.
13 There were also under his sway the islands of Curaçoa, Buenaire and Amba .
14 We discover Amba , triumphant, planting a severed head atop one of the spears.
15 Mr Amba said getting some 200 families resettled would be an even bigger challenge.
16 For a while the communications between the Amba and the camp were again suspended.
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