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Āw-Barre, also known as Teferi Ber, is a town in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Jijiga Zone of the Somali Region, near the Somali border on the main trade route between Jijiga and the sea. It is the administrative center of Awbere. It was one of the biggest towns of the Adal Empire. It is also known as The Gate of Fear, hence the name Teferi Ber. According to Ethiopian Christian folklore, this town was the only gateway that has caused fear for the Ethiopian Christian Kingdom.
The main trade route between Jijiga and the sea passes through Āwuberē; an ancient route to Zeila almost always went through Aw-Barre. In 1962 it was described as a dry weather road. The Ethiopian News Agency reported in early 1998 that much khat was illegally smuggled out of Ethiopia by this route.
When emperor Haile Selassie inspected the Western Somalia in 1935 prior to the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Haile Selassie made a secret two-day excursion to Āwuberē. The Italian Giuda described Āw-Barrē in 1938 as a Somali village with about 1,000 inhabitants, whose houses were partly built of masonry, and possessing a mosque; a little to the west of the village was the tomb of Shek Barek.