Mekele

Mekele stands in the highlands of Enderta, above the routes leading toward the Afar salt country. It is believed to have grown from a thirteenth-century hamlet called Enda Meseqel, later known as Enda Medhane Alem. By the early nineteenth century it was becoming a town. Ras Wolde Selassie ruled Enderta from Antalo to the south, while using the country around Mekele as a place of recreation.