Addis Ababa, also known as Finfinne, is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is where the African Union is headquartered and where its predecessor the Organisation of African Unity was based. The city was chosen by Emperor Menelik II as the capital of his kingdom of Shoa and was renamed to AddisAbaba. It served as the. capital of Aosta for Italian East Africa until 1941.
About Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in brief
Addis Ababa, also known as Finfinne, is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is where the African Union is headquartered and where its predecessor the Organisation of African Unity was based. It also hosts the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The city lies a few miles west of the East African Rift which splits Ethiopia into two, between the Nubian Plate and the Somali Plate. It was chosen by Emperor Menelik II as the capital of his kingdom of Shoa and was renamed to AddisAbaba. The site of Addis ababa was chosen. by Empress Taytu Betul and the city was founded in 1886. It served as the. capital of Aosta for Italian East Africa until 1941, when it was abandoned in favour of Amba. During the Second World War it was liberated by Major Major Amba Al-Deba and other redoubts and abandoned by the Italians. It has a population of 2,739,551 inhabitants and is home to the University of Oromia. Addisababa is often referred to as \”the political capital of Africa\” for its historical, diplomatic and political significance for the continent. The name of the city is still visible today in the planting of numerous eucalyptus trees along the streets of the town. The town grew by leaps and bounds when Menelika II became Emperor of Ethiopia and became Ethiopia’s capital. It remains the seat of government in Addis Ababas today and is still known as the ‘new flower’ of the Oromo people.
The location was called Fin Finne in the Oomo language, which attests the presence of hot springs. Prior to the establishment of present-day Addis. Ababa the location was named FinfinNE in theOromo language and was inhabited by various Oromi clans. The city is surrounded by the Special Zone of Orosia and populated by people from different regions of Ethiopia, including the Amhara, Tigre, Oromiya, and the Tigre-speaking region of the Ethiopian Highlands. It lies just west of Mount Entoto, which is one of a handful of sites put forward as a possible location for a medieval imperial capital known as Barara. A 30-hectare site incorporates a castle with 12 towers, along with 520 meters of stone walls measuring up to 5-meter high. The suggestion that Barara was located on MountEntoto is supported by the very recent discovery of a large medieval town overlooking Addis ABaba located between rock-hewn Washa Mikael and the more modern church of Entoto Maryam, founded in the late 19th century. Dubbed the Pentagon, the 30-year-old site is located between Washa Mikiel and Entoto Mikael, and is known as ‘The Pentagon’ The city was chosen as capital of the Shewa province in 1886 and the name was changed. to Addi Ababa.
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