Agula

Agula lies in the eastern Tigray highlands near Adigrat, below a high ridge on the road toward the Red Sea. In the early seventeenth century Adigrat was a centre of Kafle Wahid, a governor under Emperor Fasilides. Dejazmach Sabagadis Woldu made it his political seat in the 1820s, building churches, palaces and markets where salt from the Afar lowlands was traded.