Wuchale
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Wuchale (also spelled Uccialli) is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located about 40 kilometers north of Dessie in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1711 meters.
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Wuchale has an estimated total population of 6811, of whom 3326 were males and 3485 were females.[1]
While it was a fief of Queen Taytu, Italian ambassador Count Pietro Antonelli met with Emperor Menelik II at Wuchale shortly after the death in battle of Emperor Yohannes IV. The two countries came to an agreement known as the Treaty of Wuchale, which was signed on 2 May 1889; differences between the two versions, one written in Amharic the other in Italian, led to the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
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- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
