Bahir Dar
Bahir Dar ባሕር ዳር |
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State : | Ethiopia | |
Region : | Amhara | |
Coordinates : | 11 ° 33 ' N , 37 ° 22' E | |
Height : | 1,840 meters above sea level | |
Residents : | 297,794 (2016) | |
Time zone : | EAT (UTC + 3) | |
Telephone code : | (+251) (0) 11 | |
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Bahir Dar ( Amharic ባሕር ዳር bahərdar ) is the capital of the Ethiopian province of Amhara and the sixth largest city in Ethiopia. In 2016 it has about 297,794 inhabitants.
Bahir Dar is 320 km as the crow flies or 578 km by road north-northwest of Addis Ababa at an altitude of approx. 1840 m on the southern shore of Lake Tana . Lake Tana is Ethiopia's largest lake and the source of the Blue Nile. The Lake Tana region has been a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2015 .
The discharge of the blue Nile on the eastern edge of the city is regulated by the Chara-Chara weir and crossed by a bridge.
There are 20 Christian Orthodox monasteries in the city . The city has an airport and a university .
One of Haile Selassie's palaces is near the city. 30 km to the southeast are the Tisissat waterfalls of the Blue Nile (Abbai). The source of the Blue Nile is located in Gish Abay in the mountains 70 km south of Bahir Dar as the crow flies.
history
The city grew around a mission of the Jesuits , which was built in the 16th or 17th century.
At the end of the Ethiopian civil war, Bahir Dar was captured by troops of the Tigray People's Liberation Front in March 1991 .
Population development
The following overview shows the population by area since the 1984 census.
year | Residents |
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1984 | 54,800 |
1994 | 96.140 |
2007 | 155,428 |
2015 | 297.794 |
Twin cities
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literature
- Rare Seyoum: A History of Bahir Dar Town 1936–1974 . MA thesis, Addis Ababa University 1988.
- Rare Seyoum: Land Alination & Urban Growth, Bahir Dar . In: David M. Andersen, Richard Rathbone: Africa's Urban Past . James Currey, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0852557612 (UK); ISBN 0325002207 (USA)
- Rare Seyoum: History of Bahir Dar . In: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica , Volume 1: A – C. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1 , p. 444.
Web links
- Population figures (2005), see tables B.3 and B.4 (PDF; 1.70 MB)
- Homepage of the Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve
- Lake Tana project page of the Naturschutzbund (NABU) eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Christianity. 2000 years of cultural history . Tandem Verlag, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-8331-5312-9 , p. 19.
- ↑ Ethiopia: Regions & Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
- ↑ National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia: Climate Information Bahir Dar. World Meteorological Organization, accessed October 27, 2012 .