Gamu-Gofa

Coordinates: 5°45′N 37°00′E / 5.750°N 37.000°E / 5.750; 37.000
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Location of Gamu Gofa within the Ethiopian Empire

Gamu-Gofa was a

Kaffa, on the north and east by Sidamo, on the southeast by Lake Chew Bahir, and on the south by Kenya and Lake Turkana
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Gamu-Gofa Province came into existence as a result of Proclamation 1943/1, which created 12 taklai ghizats from the existing 42 provinces of varying sizes.

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References

  1. ^ "States of Ethiopia". Statoids.
  2. ^ Bereket Habte Selassie, "Constitutional Development in Ethiopia", Journal of African Law, 10 (1966), p. 79. The number of former provinces comes from the map in Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia, second ed. (Oxford: James Currey, 2001), p. 86.

5°45′N 37°00′E / 5.750°N 37.000°E / 5.750; 37.000