Kombolcha
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Kombolcha ኮምቦልቻ |
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 Kombolcha
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| Coordinates: 11°5′12″N 39°44′12″E / 11.08667°N 39.73667°ECoordinates: 11°5′12″N 39°44′12″E / 11.08667°N 39.73667°E | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | Amhara Region |
| Zone | Debub Wollo Zone |
| Elevation | 1,842 m (6,043 ft) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 188,667 |
| Time zone | EAT (UTC+3) |
Kombolcha is a city and woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 11°5′N 39°44′E / 11.083°N 39.733°E with an elevation between 1842 and 1915 meters above sea level. Some guide books describe Kombolcha as the twin city of Dessie which lies some 13 km to the northwest. Kombolcha is connected with Dessie through Ethiopian Highway 2.
This city shares Combolcha Airport with neighbouring Dessie. It is also home to Kombolcha Steel products, a metalworking factory that is part of MIDROC, a conglomerate owned by businessman Sheikh Mohammed Al Amoudi. Another industry in this town is the Kombolcha Textile Factory (KTF), which announced 9 March 2009 that it was beginning a 190 million Birr modernization project to improve the quality of its projects. At the time of the announcement, the KTF exported its goods to Italy, Sweden, Belgium and China.
Tadesse Tamrat records that archeologists discovered "some remains of Christian settlements", dated to the late first millennium of the current era.
When the missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf was led as a prisoner from Adare Bille's capital to the Teledere House of the Wollo Oromo in April 1843 he passed Kombolcha, which he described as a village near the source of the Borkana River.
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