Gemu-Gofa

Gemu-Gofa (ጋሙ ጎፋ, also Gamu Gofa ) was a province in the southern part of Ethiopia , named after the two ethnic groups that lived within the boundaries of the province: the Gamo and the Gofa.

Initially incorporated into the Abyssinian Empire by the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II in the 1880s , its capital was initially Chencha , from 1965 its capital was relocated to Arba Minch .

Gamu-Gofa was delimited from the west and north by the Kingdom of Kaffa (from 1987 province of Kaffa ), on the north and east border was the province of Sidamo , in the southeast was Lake Chew Bahir and in the south finally British East Africa (later Kenya ) as well as the Turkana Sea .

With the adoption and the entry into force of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1995 Gamu-Gofa was reorganized and in the zones Semien Omo Zone ( Omo North ) and the Debub Omo Zone ( Omo South ) within the Ethiopian region of the southern Nations, nationalities and peoples divided.

Individual evidence

1. ^ States of Ethiopia . Retrieved December 31, 2010. from statoids.com