Sidamo Province

Coordinates: 5°00′N 39°00′E / 5.000°N 39.000°E / 5.000; 39.000
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Sidamo Province prior to 1995

Sidamo Province (

Awasa. It was named after an ethnic group native to southern Ethiopia, called the Sidama
, who are located in the south-central part of the country.

According to the old political division, Sidamo was bordered on the west by Gamu-Gofa, on the north by Shewa, on the north and east by Bale, a small portion on the southeast by Somalia, and on the south by Kenya.

History

With its extensive

Dejazmach Balcha Safo, who governed it at different times before the Italian occupation.[1] Its largest settlement was Hawassa
(Awasa).

Following the liberation of Ethiopia from Italy in 1942, the provinces of Borana and Welayta, created from conquered states of that name, were merged into Sidamo.[2]

Sidamo was the scene of a revolt of the Gedeo people in 1960 who objected to a reorganization of the taxation system, which they believed was oppressive. The revolt was brutally suppressed; as Bahru Zewde notes, "Armed mostly with spears and swords, the peasants confronted a well-equipped enemy composed of land-lords and government troops." The Gedeo rebels were crushed in several engagements, and an arbitration commission headed by Afa Negus Eshate Gada not only found for land lords, but fined the elders of the Gedeo who had led the revolt.[3]

Since the adoption of the

Oromia region and to the Somali Region
as to a very small percentage.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia, second edition (London: James Currey, 2001), pp. 129, 133.
  2. Haile Selassie
    undertook after his return in 1942. Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time (New York: Palgrave, 2000), pp. 237f.
  3. ^ Bahru Zewde, A History, p. 218.

5°00′N 39°00′E / 5.000°N 39.000°E / 5.000; 39.000

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