The causes of the Fasil Ghebbi can be found in the old custom of the Ethiopian heads to go around their belonging, living off the deliver of the workers and abiding in tents. Mirroring this association, this region was as often as possible alluded to as a katama ("camp" or "strengthened settlement") or makkababya, the name connected to the supreme camp in the Royal Chronicle of Baeda Maryam.
Head Fasilides broke with this convention of advancing through the regions, and established the city of Gondar as his capital; its relative lastingness makes the city verifiably essential. Inside the capital, he charged the development of a forcing structure, the Fasil Gemb or Fasilides manor. The territory around the Fasil Gemb was portrayed by a divider with various entryways. Resulting heads constructed their own particular structures, a considerable lot of which survive either in entire or part today.