Jaldessa

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Jaldessa ( also written as Jaldēsa, Jeldessa or Ǧildessa ) is a small village in the Shinile zone in the Somali region of Ethiopia.

The place name is from the Oromo word jaldeessa for " monkey " or " baboon " derived; these animals were in the area before the formerly numerous. The village lies in a valley and has naturally above water, albeit of poor quality.

In the 19th century Jaldessa was an important station on the trade route from Harar to the Red Sea. WC Barker mentioned the place in 1842 as caravan station on the territory of the Nole Oromo on the route from Zeila to Harar. 1875 was Jaldessa in the field of Issa - Somali directly on the border with the Nole Oromo. Egyptian troops built a fort to secure the supplies from the coast, and a contingent of soldiers from the Sudan was stationed with an Egyptian officer. The people built huts around the fortified with stones and thorn hedges station around the Somali and Oromo on the one on the other side. Also, the Ugas of Issa, Farah Roble, relocated its headquarters to Jaldessa. Its population rose to 1,500 and doubled or tripled on market days. After the Egyptians had left Harar in 1885, Great Britain took possession of Jaldessa and stationed a garrison of 19 Indians and 20 Arabs and Somali.

In April 1886 an Italian traveler and his companions were attacked and killed in Jaldessa what Menelik II served as a justification for an attack on the Sultanate of Harar. After the conquest of Harar Ethiopia by 1887 Jaldessa was next Darmi and Jijiga one of the Ethiopian forts along the border with the not yet conquered Somali. The governors in Jaldessa were often of foreign origin, such as an Armenian, the successful campaigns against the Somali resulted in the Ogaden. Jaldessa was hard hit by the Great Famine in the 1890s, but retained its importance as a trading center. It finds mention as such in numerous colonial treaties. The boundary line between the French Somali Coast and British Somaliland, and between the present-day Djibouti and Somaliland / Somalia in 1888 pulled by Loyada after Jaldessa. The Anglo- Italian Protocol of May 5, 1894 allotted Jaldessa Italy, and in 1890 Crispi Menelik II had asked permission to fly the Italian flag in Jaldessa to forestall British and French claims.

The construction of the railway line from Addis Ababa to Djibouti and the establishment of Dire Dawa in 1902 the importance of the traditional trade route and thus also of Jaldessa sank. The duty was transferred to Dire Dawa. The decline was thus something stopped that Britain subsidized caravans from Zeila to Harar to keep this route over the railway line competitive.

In Ogadenkrieg Somali troops participated in the advance on Dire Dawa to place a. On February 4, 1978 Ethiopian troops took back with Cuban equipment Jaldessa.

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