Afdem
Coordinates: 9 ° 28 ' N , 41 ° 0' E
Afdem ( Ge'ez አፍደም Afdäm ) is the main town of the woreda Afdem of the same name in the Shinile zone in the Somali region of Ethiopia . According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia from 2005, it had 2,129 inhabitants.
The place was created between 1902 and 1915 as a station on the railway line from Addis Ababa to Djibouti . It was founded at the foot of the 2048 meter high mountain Afdem to supply the steam locomotives with water. Rail travelers who boarded Dire Dawa that morning were able to eat at the Afdem station and stayed at the Awash station . At the time of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia , the steam locomotives were replaced by Littorina locomotives, which reduced the travel time between Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa from two days to one day. The trains stopped at Awash at lunchtime, and Afdem station lost its importance as a result. In 1984 the village had 805 inhabitants.
Administratively, Afdem belonged to the province of Harerge (Hararghe) and from 1987 to West Harerge. With the introduction of the new administrative structure in Ethiopia at the beginning of the 1990s, it received its current division.
In the area there are conflicts between the Issa - Somali and the Afar who live further north . In 1997, of 1428 inhabitants, 69.54% were Somali, 20.39% Oromo and 7.63% Amharen , 1.9% belonged to other ethnic groups.
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- ↑ Central Statistical Agency : 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ a b c Alain Gascon: Afdäm , in: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica , Volume 1, 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1
- ↑ The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Volume I: Part I. Statistical Report on Population Size and Characteristics ( Memento of 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ), 1998 (PDF; 51.8 MB), P. 72