Kosoge

Kosoge in Wegera is remembered for a victory of the Ethiopian emperor Yeshaq over the Beta Israel, the Jewish community of the northern highlands. A church called Yeshaq Debir was built to commemorate the defeat. Yeshaq's fifteenth-century campaigns curtailed Beta Israel control over the fertile plains of Wegera and Dembiya, leaving their autonomous communities increasingly confined to the mountains of Semien and Tselemt.