Aleta Wendo
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Aleta Wendo (also known as Wendo) is a town in southern
woreda
.
This town has both telephone and postal service, and is supplied with electricity by the
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation from the national grid.[1]
History
Dejazmach Balcha Safo, Governor of Sidamo, originally constructed his ketema, or fortified camp, in Wendo, but he later moved it to Hagere Selam.[2] While passing through the area in February 1909, Dr. Drake Brockman notes that the governor of Western Sidamo, Dejazmach Tessema Nadew, made this town (which he calls "Alata") his headquarters.[3] American naturalists arrived at Wendo village on 29 December 1926, and camped outside the village for a while. Grazmach Kebede Dihala Mikael, the village potentate, implored them to camp near his house, explaining that there were plenty of shiftas or outlaws in the area.[2]
Wendo was occupied by the Italian Laghi Division on 30 November 1936. It was retaken by the 1st Gold Coast Regiment on 22 May 1941, without a single shot fired. The Allied forces accepted the surrender of a Brigadier General and some 3,000 prisoners.[2]
By 1958, Wendo was one of 27 places in Ethiopia ranked as a First Class Township. Telephone service reached the town within the next 10 years.[2]
Demographics
Based on figures from the
Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Aleta Wendo has an estimated total population of 20,513, of whom 10,006 were males and 10,507 were females.[4]
According to the 1994 national census, the town had a population of 11,300.
Notes
- ^ Woreda administration sources, as quoted in Final Report for Aposto-Wendo-Negele (World Bank Report E1546, vol. 1) Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 71f
- ^ a b c d "Local History in Ethiopia" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 November 2007)
- ^ Appendix 1 to C. W. Gwynn, "A Journey in Southern Abyssinia", Geographical Journal, 38 (August 1911), p. 135
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived 2006-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, Table B.4
