Dilla (Ethiopia)
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Dilla ዲላ |
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 Ethiopia
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| Region : | Southern nations, nationalities and peoples | ||
| Coordinates : | 6 ° 25 ′ N , 38 ° 19 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 61,114 (2005) | ||
| Time zone : | EAT (UTC + 3) | ||
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Dilla or Dila ( Ge'ez ዲላ) is the capital of Gedeo Zone in the Southern Nations in Ethiopia . It is located about 405 kilometers south of Addis Ababa . Within the Gedeo zone it belongs to the Woreda Wenago .
population
According to the Central Statistics Agency, Dilla had 61,114 inhabitants in 2005. These belong to numerous different ethnic and language groups. In 1994, of 33,734 inhabitants, 25.58% were Amharen , 14.37% Gedeo , 12.57% Oromo , 11.39% Silt'e , 8.01% Soddo - Gurage , 7.06% Wolaytta , 5.6% Sebat -Bet-Gurage, 5.47% Sidama , 3.11% Werji , 1.9% Dorze and 1.7% Tigray . The mother tongue was 55.39% Amharic , 13.02% Gedeo , 7.95% Oromo , 4.82% Wolaytta , 4.96% Sidama , 4.64% Silt'e , 2.84% Soddo, 2.55 % Gurage, and 1.57% Dorze .
history
When a German ethnological expedition visited Dilla in the 1930s, the Guji- Oromo appeared to have only recently invaded the area and were in the process of settling down as settled farmers. They were feared by the surrounding ethnic groups. At the same time, Dilla was described as a coffee market steeped in tradition. According to an Italian source from 1938 (cf. Italian East Africa ), Dilla had around 800 residents and an important market, as well as a post office, telegraph connection, health post, mill and church. The roads to Hagere Mariam and Wendo were in poor condition.
In 1941, British troops, having just captured Shashemene from the Italians, advanced towards Dilla. They succeeded in cutting off the Italians' route of retreat and blocking them on the eastern shore of Lake Abaya , so that they were either captured or fled to Soddo in a disorderly manner. After the Italians withdrew, fighting broke out between the Guji and Gedeo, and the border area between the two groups remained deserted for months.
From the 1950s on, missionaries were active in Dilla and operated a. a. Schools and hospitals. In the 1960s, the Franco-Ethiopian Railway Company and the governments of Ethiopia and France considered building a 310 km railway line from Nazret / Adama to Dilla, and Yugoslav experts judged these plans to be workable, but they were never implemented. The trip to Addis Ababa took three weeks in 1953, and only 10 hours in 1965. In 1964, diesel generators were put into operation for the first time. According to official statistics from 1965, 1,210 dwellings in Dilla were owned by the residents, 1,640 were rented, 90 no details were available. 2,000 households used water from wells, 940 from rivers, none had running water. 0.7% of households had flush toilets, 57.1% had latrines and 42.2% had no such facilities. 4,070 men and 3,670 women over the age of 10 lived in Dilla. 30.2% of men and 5.2% of women could read. 17% of men and 18% of women were born in the city.
In 1967 there were 11,287 residents, 37% of whom were born in the city. The illiteracy rate was 80.4%. 36% spoke Amharic, 27% Gurage and 17% Oromo as their mother tongue. 42% of the working population worked in trade and 14% in agriculture. There were 42 phone numbers. 1969 after the Ethiopian government gave a loan from the Federal Republic of Germany for the construction of a road from Dilla to Moyale . In 1975 the city had 18,898 inhabitants, in 1978 there were three petrol stations.
At a conference in 1994 the various mission organizations agreed which of them should evangelize which ethnic groups that had not yet been reached in order to avoid duplication. On July 22, 1998, there were violent clashes in Dilla, in which over 140 people were killed. In the same year, the Dilla teacher training center was affiliated with the University of the South / University of Awassa .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central Statistical Agency : 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ CSA: The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Volume I: Part I. Statistical Report on Population Size and Characteristics ( Memento of the original of 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 87.4 MB), 1996 (pp. 155, 197)
- ↑ The Nordic Africa Institute: Local History in Ethiopia (PDF)
