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8 unusual facts about Oromia Region


Battle of Guté Dili

The Battle of Guté Dili was fought on 14 October 1888 between an alliance of the Shewan forces of Ras Gobana Dacche and the Oromo ruler of Leqa Naqamte, Moroda Bekere, and Mahdist forces under governor Khalil al-Khuzani near Nejo in the modern Mirab Welega Zone of the Oromia Region.

Debre Libanos

Debre Libanos (ደብረ፡ሊባኖስ, Däbrä Libanos) is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ababa in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region.

Ethiopia–Turkey relations

In December 2008, Turkey sent a trade delegation to Ethiopia, which met with the Prime Minister, the Minister of Trade and Industry Girma Biru, and the President of the Oromia Region Abadula Gemeda, as well as visited Turkish-owned textiles factories in Ethiopia.

Federal Parliamentary Assembly

Representatives from the Oromia Region hold the most positions and representatives from the Amhara Region hold the second most positions, in correlation with the population order of the corresponding states.

Maryam Yusuf Jamal

Jamal was born in the Arsi Zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, an area famous for distance runners, including Haile Gebreselassie, Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba.

Omo River

It is the principal stream of an endorheic drainage basin; the part that the Omo drains includes part of the western Oromia Region and the middle of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region.

Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union

The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU) is an Ethiopian agricultural cooperative federation, established in June 1999, representing approximately 102,950 coffee growers, processors, and exporters of the Oromia Region of southern and western Ethiopia.

Xuchang

On 18 December 2006, the Oromia Region government in Ethiopia signed an agreement with Henan Province to establish a sister city program with Ambo.


Bizunesh Urgesa

Bizunesh Mohammed Urgesa (born 18 June 1989 in Negele Arsi, Oromia Region) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in the marathon.

Fugnan Bira

Located in the Misraq Hararghe Zone of the Oromia Region, on a high plateau at the southern base of Mount Kondudo, which gives the town a climate similar to Harar.

Jaarso

Jaarso Clan live in the, Jigjiga, Jinacsani, Babeli,Tuliguleed, Hadow, Dhagahle, Bombaas, Fayanbiro, Fayan Hujubo, Ordo, Kombulsho, Gursum, Diri dawa, Dadar, Qulubi, Ejersa Goro, Harar, Haramaya, Baali, Hawaday, Awash Part of Oromia Region and also live in the border of Kenya.

Jimma University

Jimma University (JU) is a public university located in Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia.

Mao languages

Hozo and Seze (often described together as 'Begi Mao') spoken around Begi in the Mirab (West) Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, and

Metehara Sugar

Metehara Sugar (aka Metehara Seqwar) is an Ethiopian football club, in the town of Addis Ketema, Oromia Region.

Mulu, Ethiopia

Mulu is a town in eastern Ethiopia, located in the Mirab Hararghe Zone of the Oromia Region.

Shashemene City

Shashemene City (aka Shashemene Kenema) is an Ethiopian football club, in the city of Shashemene, Misraq Shewa Zone, Oromia Region.

Softu

Around 2,370 households came to settle themselves in four camps around this town: one of the camps include people from the Bale Zone in Oromia, while three housed people claiming to come from Liben woreda in Borena Zone in Oromia.

Tirfi Tsegaye

Born in Bekoji in Ethiopia's Oromia Region, she comes from a town renowned for producing world class runners such as Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba.

Waqo Gutu

He fired the first shot in 1958 by slaying two policemen and together with Abdullai Usman Gutu proceeded to the jungle in 1962 to widen an armed resistance against Haile Selassie’s land policies in what is now Oromia Region, where most Oromo live.


see also

Addis Alem

Addis Alem, Shewa (also known as Ejersa) is the largest and best known, and is located in the Oromia Region.

Borana

Borena Zone, one of the 17 zones of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia

Borena Zone

The Borena Zone was created shortly after the adoption of the new constitution in 1995 and the creation of the Oromia Region.

Liben

Liben, Oromia, woreda in the Guji Zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Liben, Oromia, Misraq Shewa, woreda in the Misraq Shewa Zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia