Awbere
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Awbere is a town in eastern Ethiopia. It is located in the Jijiga Zone of the Somali Region, seven kilometers from Fugnan Bira in the neighboring Oromia Region.[1]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Awbere has an estimated total population of 35,977, of whom 18,978 were males and 16,999 were females.[2] It is one of two towns in Awbere woreda.
The Italian Giuda described Awbere in 1938 as Somali village with about 1000 inhabitants, whose houses were partly built of masonry, and possessing a mosque; a little to the west of the village was the tomb of Shek Barek.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 November 2007)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
- ^ Cited in "Local History in Ethiopia"
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