Dila, Ethiopia
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Dilla or Dila ( Ge'ez ዲላ ) is the capital of the Gedeo Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is located about 405 kilometers south of Addis Ababa. Within the Gedeo zone it belongs to the Woreda Wenago.
Population
According to the Central Statistics Agency Dilla had 2005 61.114 inhabitants. These belong to many different ethnic and linguistic groups. In 1994, of 33,734 inhabitants, 25.58 % Amhara, 14.37 % Gedeo, 12.57 % Oromo, 11.39% Silt'e, 8.01% Soddo - Gurage, 7.06% Wolaytta, 5.6% Sebat -bet Gurage, Sidama 5.47%, 3.11% Werji, 1.9% and 1.7 % Dorze Tigray. As a mother tongue languages Amharic 55.39 %, 13.02% Gedeo, 7.95 % Oromo, 4.82% Wolaytta, Sidama 4.96%, 4.64% Silt'e, 2.84% Soddo, 2.55 % Gurage, and 1.57 % Dorze.
History
As a German ethnological expedition in the 1930s Dilla visited, the Guji - Oromo appeared only recently penetrated into the area to be and were about to settle as sedentary farmers. In the surrounding ethnic groups, they were feared. At the same time Dilla was described as a traditional coffee market. One Italian source from 1938, according to (see Italian East Africa ) had Dilla approximately 800 residents and a significant market, also post office, telegraph lines, health posts, mill and church. The roads to Gaunt Mariam and after Wendo were in poor condition.
1941 engaged British troops who had just conquered Shashemene by the Italians, before toward Dilla. They managed to cut off the retreat path of the Italians and to block them on the eastern shore of the Abayasees, so they were taken prisoner or disordered fled to Soddo. After the withdrawal of the Italians broke out fighting between the Guji and Gedeo, and the border area between the two groups remained for months deserted.
Since the 1950s, missionaries were active in Dilla and operated inter alia Schools and hospitals. In the 1960s, considered the Franco- Ethiopian Railway Company and the governments of Ethiopia and France to build a 310 km long railway line from Nazret / Adama by Dilla, and Yugoslav experts rated these plans perform worth, but they were never realized. The trip to Addis Ababa in 1953 lasted three weeks, in 1965 only 10 hours. 1964 Diesel generators were put into operation for the first time. According to official statistics from 1965 1.210 dwellings in Dilla owned by the residents, 1,640 were leased to 90, there were no further details. 2,000 households used water from wells, 940 from rivers, none had running water. 0.7 % of households had flush toilets, 57.1 % had latrines and 42.2 % had no such facilities. In Dilla 4,070 men and 3,670 women lived over 10 years. 30.2 % of men and 5.2 % of women could read. 17 % of men and 18% of the women were born in the city.
1967 counted 11,287 residents, of which 37% were born in the city. The illiteracy rate was 80.4 %. 36% spoke Amharic, Gurage 27% and 17% Oromo as their mother tongue. 42 % of the workforce worked in retail and 14% in agriculture. There were 42 telephone numbers. In 1969 after the Ethiopian government a loan from the Federal Republic of Germany for the construction of a road from Dilla to Moyale on. In 1975, the city had 18,898 inhabitants, in 1978 there were three gas stations.
The various mission organizations agreed in a conference in 1994 on what should evangelize them which have not yet reached people groups in order to avoid Dopplespurigkeiten. On July 22, 1998, there were violent clashes in Dilla, in which over 140 people were killed. In the same year the teacher training school of Dilla to the University of the South / University Awassa was affiliated.