Fugnan Bira
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Fugnan Bira (also called Fugnan Jeba) is a town in east-central Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq Hararghe Zone of the Oromia Region, on a high plateau at the South base of the Kondudo, which gives the town a climate similar to Harar.[1] Fugnan Bira has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation between 1980 and 2049 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Gursum woreda.
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Fugnan Bira has an estimated total population of 15,478 of whom 7,676 were males and 7,802 were females.[2] The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 8,657 of whom 4,163 were males and 4,494 were females.
In the early 1930s, at Fugnan Bira was an agency of Said Bazarah, an export-import firm founded in 1887. During a period of unrest in the area around May 1942, Funyan Bira was also pillaged and burnt. The market was sacked next year during fighting between the Geri Jarso Somalis and Ethiopian government troops assisted by Amhara residents.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 11 December 2007)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4
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