What is "ebenat"

Ebenat (also spelled Ibnat) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the former district that lay roughly in the same area; the woreda itself dates from the mid-1960s. Part of the Debub Gondar Zone, Ebenat is bordered on the south by Farta, on the southwest by Fogera, on the west by Libo Kemekem, on the north by the Semien Gondar Zone, on the northeast by the Wag Hemra Zone, on the east by Semine (North) Wollo Zone, and on the southeast by Lay Gayint. The administrative center of Ebenat is Ebenat.

Near the town of Ebenat, on 17 January 1608 the Emperor Susenyos surprised an Oromo army; the Imperial army killed 12,000 Oromo at a cost of 400 of their comrades.

Ebenat is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, Ebenat has a latitude and longitude of . It is the administrative center of Ebenat woreda.