Erer

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Erer ( Amharic ኤረር Erär; Afar errer " change of camels " ) or Erer Gota is the main town of the same name Woreda Erer in Shinile zone in the Somali region of Ethiopia. According to the 2005 census it had 7,490 inhabitants.

Erer is on 1201 meters above sea level in an oasis at the foot of Ahmargebirges, at a junction of a alluvial fan of the river Erer.

WC Barker in 1842 reported an Ethiopian that caravans of Ankober to Harar in Erer men casting ( " Errur " ) between stop. The tribes in the area - the Gurgura who are subject to the Issa - Somali, in the north, the Argobba the south and the Nole and Ala Oromo in the east - would visit the site often, especially in the dry season.

In 1886 a French traveler Erer as a village at the junction of roads to Tadjoura, Zeila and Shewa, where Afar, Oromo and Issa encounter.

Gota was founded as a station on the railway line between Addis Ababa and Djibouti in the early 20th century and gradually grew with Erer together.

A palace of Emperor Haile Selassie in the vicinity of thermal springs was converted into a hotel during the Italian occupation. In the vicinity of Erer are orchards of which were the largest to the Emperor, before they were nationalized under the Derg regime. In Erer grown fruit in the markets of Dire Dawa (to which a good road connection ) and Harar sold.

Of 1997, 5027 inhabitants, 38.07 % Somali, Oromo 33.1%, 21.24 % and 4.97% Amhara Gurage.

Swell

• Alain Gascon: Erär, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia aethiopica, Volume 2, 2005, ISBN 978-3447052382

• Place in Somaliland
• Place in Africa