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Awrajja (Amharic: አውራጃ) were the third-level
country subdivisions which subdivided the
Provinces of
Ethiopia prior to 1996.
Awrajja roughly translates...
- a zone was
called an
awrajja, and many
zones today are
named the same as
their earlier awrajja, but the
terms zone and
awrajja are not interchangeable...
- Historically,
Ethiopia was
divided into provinces,
further subdivided into
awrajjas or districts,
until they were
replaced by ethnolinguistic-based regions...
- ****ociated with
Bulga prior to the
Oromo expansion.
Afterwards it
became a
awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa. The
region was home to the
important Debre...
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Ethiopia and
Awrajja Prior to the 1995 Constitution,
Ethiopia was
divided into provinces, and
those were
further subdivided into
awrajjas, then into woredas...
- century. For example,
while the
government appointed a
governor to the
awrajja (district) of
Aussa proper, the governor,
rather than
taking up residence...
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center of
Merti woreda.
Prior to 1995, it was the
capital of Arba Gugu
awrajja.
According to the
Oromia Regional government, this town
currently has telephone...
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Tigray is
still used by
rural people of
Tigray as
referring only to Adwa
Awrajja,
while other regions of
modern Tigray are
still considered to be "outside...
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Ghebreyesus and
Melashu Weldegabir. His
family originated from the
Enderta awrajja of Tigray. The name "Ghebreyesus" is from his grandfather, and is not their...
- the 1960s and 1970s,
Bahir Dar grew rapidly,
being the
capital of the
awrajja by the same name in the
Gojjam province. The
central government developed...
