 This town is not mentioned in the surviving records until 1746, when the soldiers of Emperor Iyasu II burned it down.The traveler Augustus B. Wylde wrote in the 1890s that the palace of the Wagshums in this town had been built around 1650.It was a three-storey structure which could not be dated with any precision, but he believed the masons and craftsmen were some of those who had worked at Gondar.