Maji is a town in southern Ethiopia Ethiopia (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā) is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa. Officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is the second-most populous nation in Africa with over 79.2 million people and the tenth-largest by area with its 1,100,000 km2. The capital is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is. It is located on the Boma Plateau, lying in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, and has a longitude and latitude of 6°12′N 35°35′E / 6.2°N 35.583°E Coordinates A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified in three coordinates, using mainly a spherical coordinate system: 6°12′N 35°35′E / 6.2°N 35.583°E with an elevation variously given as 2104, 2258 and 2430 meters above sea level. The town is the administrative center for the Maji Zone and Dizi woreda Woreda is an administrative division of Ethiopia (managed by a local government), equivalent to a district[citation needed]. Woredas are composed of a number of Kebele, or neighborhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government in Ethiopia. Woredas are typically collected together into zones, which form a kilil (Regional.
Postal service in Maji started at some time between 1923-1932. From the 1930s the town had a customs post and a telephone station.[1] The town is served by Tume Airport (ICAO The International Civil Aviation Organization , a specialized agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. Its headquarters are located in the Quartier International of Montreal, Quebec, code HAMJ).
History
Maji was founded around 1897 when Ras Until the end of the monarchy in 1974, there were two categories of nobility in Ethiopia: the Mesafint or princes, hereditary nobles, formed the upper echelon of the ruling class; while the Mekwanint (makʷanin, modern mekʷenin or መኮንን mekonnen, "governor") were the appointed nobles, often of humble birth, who formed the bulk of Welde Giyorgis stationed a garrison of Ethiopian soldiers near the lands of the ture, a personage Garretson describes as "the most powerful and respected religious figure in the area." Garretson explains how an administrative center for the region soon followed: "Built on a commanding hill were a fortified encampment of gibbi (the personal headquarters of the governor), a church and a market. All were carefully observed and guarded by the governor and his retinue of soldiers."[2] Richard Pankhurst records that its governor, Dejazmach Taye, amazed by the growing trade at Gambela to the west of him, during the 1920s attempted to develop exports of coffee Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. They are seeds of coffee cherries that grow on trees in over 70 countries. Green unroasted coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. Due to its caffeine content, coffee can have a stimulating effect in humans, rubber, hides and ivory Ivory is formed from dentine and constitutes the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth and narwhal through the port town.[3]
Before the Italian occupation Italian East Africa was a short-lived (1936-1941) Italian colony in Africa consisting of Ethiopia (recently occupied after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) and the established colonies of Italian Somaliland and Eritrea held in the name of Victor Emmanuel III of the Kingdom of Italy. In August 1940, British Somaliland was conquered and annexed to, the British had a consulate in Maji. The town was occupied by the Italians 18 March 1937, and liberated from them by May 1941.[1] During this period, the occupiers built roads so that vehicles could be driven to Maji and a Catholic Mission operated there which ran at least one school. An American Mission was established in 1948 near Maji, and provided education and medical care until it was closed in 1977.[4]
When the Maji Zone was created in the mid-1990s, Maji became its administrative center.
Demographics
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency, in 2005 Maji has an estimated total population of 2,930 of whom 1,302 were males and 1,628 were females.[5] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 1,617 of whom 721 were males and 896 were females.
References
- ^ a b "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 14 February 2008)
- ^ Peter P. Garretson "Vicious cycles: ivory, slaves, and arms on the new Maji frontier", in Donald L. Donham and Wendy James (editors) The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 201.
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, Economic History of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 451
- ^ Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. "An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology" (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington), p. 8
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
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