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Gudar River
River in central Ethiopia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gudar is a river of central Ethiopia.[1] It is a left-bank tributary of the Abay or Blue Nile; tributaries of the Gudar include the Dabissa and the Taranta. The Gudar River has a drainage area about 7,011 square kilometers in size.[2] It was bounded by the historical Endagabatan province.[3]
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In the 1600s, emperor Susenyos I and his troops traversed this river to meet Hadiya leader Sidi Mohammed at the Battle of Hadiya.[4]
A Greek resident built the first bridge over the Gudar in 1897.[5]