{"id":445583,"date":"2018-03-12T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiJGh0dHBzOi8vd2hjLnVuZXNjby5vcmcvZW4vbGlzdC8xMTg5L9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:29","slug":"harar-jugol-unescos-fortified-historic-town-in-eastern-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/445583","title":{"rendered":"Harar Jugol: UNESCO\u2019s fortified historic town in eastern Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harar Jugol<\/strong>, the historic fortified town of Harar in eastern Ethiopia, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for its dense urban fabric, surrounding walls, and long role as a center of Islamic learning and trade between the Ethiopian highlands and the Red Sea \/ Indian Ocean world.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-599912\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/harar-jugol-wall-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1\" alt=\"Harar Jugol: UNESCO\u2019s fortified historic town in eastern Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>The jugol (old city) is ringed by historic walls and gates, with a maze of alleys, courtyard houses, mosques, and shrines. UNESCO highlights Harar\u2019s cultural continuity as a living city rather than a frozen monument, including distinctive house forms and a tradition of Islamic scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>For Ethiopian and Horn readers, Harar remains a reference point for heritage conservation, urban history, and the eastern trade routes that connected the highlands to Zeila, the Gulf of Aden, and beyond. Pressure from modern construction, tourism, and conservation funding gaps continues to shape debates about how the old city should be protected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/1189\/\">UNESCO World Heritage Centre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/1189\">UNESCO<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town&nbsp;&nbsp;UNESCO.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":599912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/harar-jugol-wall-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1RUP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599914,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445583\/revisions\/599914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}