Yetmen

10.2538.13Koordinaten: 10 ° 15 'N, 38 ° 8' O

Yetmen ( Ethiopic script: የትመን yätmän ) is a country town in the south of the Amhara Region in Ethiopia with about 2,900 inhabitants. The market is the place for the local area of importance.

The place belongs administratively to the Woreda Enemay within the State of Amhara. It is located in the highlands of Abyssinia, in the historical region Gojjam, about 200 kilometers north- west of Addis Ababa. The nearest major town is 17 km south to Dejen. Yetmen lies in 2396m altitude. About 90 percent of the Blue Nile, sloping down towards the municipal area consists of agricultural land.

About 90 percent of residents are Yetmens Amhara and more than 95 percent belong to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Muslims constitute less than 2 percent of the population.

Most inhabitants live on agriculture. The main livestock kept are cattle and sheep. Crops are cereals, legumes and potatoes. Cereals, wheat and flour is sold at the part up to Addis Ababa. In the village there is a power mill.

Yetmen is a young town. A compressed settlement arose after 1968, the year in which the local school was founded. Previously, the area was dominated exclusively by individual farms and small hamlets.

Swell

• Tassew Shiferaw, Berihun Mebratie and Gebrie Bedada: Yetmen, Enemay, Gojjam (PDF, 1.7 MB ): Philippa Bevan and Alula Pankhurst (ed.): Ethiopian Village Studies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford / Department of Sociology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1996 ( english)
• Help for the School of Yetmen ( private development project, attach photos of the place)

• Place in Amhara
• Place in Africa