File:Harar city (Ethiopia).jpg

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Note how the old city of Harar (Ethiopia) abrubtly ends with green fields starting immediately after its walls (at least at its east side).

For centuries, until about 1860, it was an independent city at the borders of two different worlds: the Abbysinian mountains and the deserts stretching to the Red Sea coast. Trade and religious affairs (Muslim) must have alternated primacy during its history. As a holy city to Islam it feels as a surprisingly relaxed place. Tom Waits can not imagine the kind of dark yet exalted bars you find here at night. The size of the walled old city is at least half that of Jerusalem's old city.
Harar city (Ethiopia)
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