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Jijiga

Jigjiga
Jigjiga nawari
Laaca
City
Wadadan waxay hormarta dugsiga sare ee High schoolka
Wadadan waxay hormarta dugsiga sare ee High schoolka
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Jigjiga is located in Ethiopia
Jigjiga
Jigjiga
Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 9°21′N 42°48′E / 9.350°N 42.800°E / 9.350; 42.800
Country  Ethiopia
Region Somali
Zone Jijiga
Government[XDSHSI]
 • president (Abdi mahamud Omar)
Elevation 1,609 m (5,279 ft)
Population (2015)
 • Total 159,300
  estimated
Time zone EAT (UTC+3)

Jijiga (Somali: Jigjiga, Arabic: جيجيغا‎‎) is a city in eastern Ethiopia and the capital of the Somali Region of the country. Located in the Jijiga Zone approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of Harar and 60 km (37 mi) west of the border with Somalia, this city has an elevation of 1,609 meters above sea level.

The city is located on the main road between Harar and the Somali city of Hargeisa. Jijiga was a city of Hararghe province, but with the adoption of the 1995 Somalia constitution, it became the capital of the Somali Regional State.

Jijiga was mentioned by W.C. Barker in 1842 as one of the mahalla or halting-places of the caravan route between Zeila and Harar.

A British hunter Colonel Swayne passed through Jijiga in February 1893, which he described as a stockaded fort with a garrison of 25 men next to a group of wells. According to I. M. Lewis, Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's men invaded Jijiga in March 1900. Although the attackers suffered heavy losses, which allowed the Ethiopian authorities to declare a victory, Sayyid Mohammed's men recovered livestock that the Ethiopians had taken from the Somalis and proved that his was a force to be reckoned with. However, Richard Pankhurst states that Jijiga was founded in 1916 by Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam, who had the town methodically organized in a square grid of streets.

During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Jijiga served for some time as Dejazmach Nasibu Emmanual's headquarters and a supply center for the Ethiopian army. An Italian force under Colonel Navarra occupied the city on the evening of 5 May 1936. Two days later, while inspecting a ruined Ethiopian Orthodox church in the city, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani fell into a concealed hole, which he was afterwards convinced was a mantrap; Anthony Mockler suggests this mishap contributed to his murderously paranoid mindset which led to the atrocities that followed the attempt on Graziani's life 19 February 1937.


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