Arsi Province

Arsi (also Arussi or Arssi written Ethiopic script: አርሲ arsi ​​) was from 1886 to 1995 a province of Ethiopia.

Since 1995 she has worked as Arsi zone management zone within the Oromia region.

Its capital is Assela, another larger places are Asebe Teferi, Bekoji, Bedesa, Gelemso, Hirna, Mieso, Asebot, Kofele, Asasa, Gobesa, Huruta, robe, Iteya, Sire, Dera and Abomsa. The zone in 2005 had more than 3 million inhabitants.

It is named after the Arsi Arsi Oromo, who live here and in the neighboring former province of Bale. The Arsi have been incorporated in the course of the 19th century in Ethiopia. 1881-1886 several military campaigns were to run by the Ethiopian side. The end of the conquest marked the events in Anole 1886, where the Ethiopians caught male Arsi right hand and women the breast amputated in order to break the resistance of Arsi and to persuade them to surrender. In the same year, the area was connected as a new province of Ethiopia.

Swell

  • Abbas Haji Gnamo: Arsi province and Anole. In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia aethiopica. Volume 1, 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1.
  • Central Statistical Agency: 2005 National Statistics, Section -B population, Table B.3 ( English, PDF, 1.8 MB)

Arsi | Bale | Begemder | Eritrea | Gemu - Gofa | Goddscham | Hararghe | Illubabor | Kaffa | Shewa | Sidamo | Tigray | Wollega | Wällo

  • Province in Ethiopia
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