Yetmen
Coordinates: 10 ° 15 ' N , 38 ° 8' E
Yetmen ( Ethiopian script : የትመን yätmän ) is a small country town in the south of the Amhara region in Ethiopia with around 2,900 inhabitants. The local market is important for the surrounding area.
The place administratively belongs to the woreda Enemay within the state of Amhara. It is located in the highlands of Abyssinia in the historic Gojjam region , about 200 kilometers northwest of Addis Ababa . The next larger city is Dejen, 17 kilometers south . Yetmen lies at an altitude of 2396 m. Over 90 percent of the municipal area sloping towards the Blue Nile consists of agricultural land.
Over 90 percent of Yetmen's residents are Amhars and more than 95 percent belong to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church . Muslims make up barely 2 percent of the population.
Most of the inhabitants live from agriculture. The most important farm animals kept are cattle and sheep. Above all, cereals, pulses and potatoes are grown. Grain, meal and flour are sometimes sold as far as Addis Ababa. There is a motor mill in the village.
Yetmen is a young town. A densely populated settlement emerged after 1968, the year the local school was founded. Before that, the area was exclusively characterized by individual farms and small hamlets.
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- Tassew Shiferaw, Berihun Mebratie and Gebrie Bedada: Yetmen, Enemay, Gojjam (PDF; 1.7 MB), in: Philippa Bevan and Alula Pankhurst (Eds.): Ethiopian Village Studies , Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford / Department of Sociology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1996 (English)
- Help for the Yetmen School (private development project, documentation with photos of the place)