Anko'bar, old capital of the kingdom of Shoa (q.v.) in Abyssinia, is built 8200 feet above sea-level, and consists of 3000 huts scattered over a mountain. When the king was in residence the population increased from 6000 to near 15,000. It is at times practically a city of the dead.
Anko'bar
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 290
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