Shoa (1,500), the southmost division of Abyssinia (q.v.); was an independent country till its conquest by Theodore of Abyssinia in 1855; is traversed by the Blue Nile, and has a mixed population of Gallas and Abyssinians.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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