Mega, Ethiopia
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Mega Abba Nazarawi |
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 Mega
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| Coordinates: 4°01′N 38°15′E / 4.017°N 38.250°ECoordinates: 4°01′N 38°15′E / 4.017°N 38.250°E | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | Oromia |
| Zone | Borena |
| Elevation | 1,470 m (4,820 ft) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 9,370 |
| Time zone | EAT (UTC+3) |
Mega is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located between Moyale and Yabelo on the paved highway south to Kenya, in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region (or kilil), this town has a latitude and longitude of 4°01′N 38°15′E / 4.017°N 38.250°E with an elevation of 1740 meters above sea level. Named for a nearby mountain, this town is the administrative center of Dire woreda.
This town is reported to have telephone service and a post office, as well as at least one primary and one secondary school, but no financial institutions.
Mega came under Ethiopian control in 1897 when Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis built a fort was nearby. In the early part of the twentieth century, it was important as the residence for Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson, British Consul for Southern Ethiopia between 1914-1923. The British manned the consulate at least as late as the 1950s.
Mega was captured by the Italians on 25 June 1936, then occupied by a South African Brigade in February 1941 after prolonged fighting with the Italian garrison. During the Italian occupation, Mega became an important hub of communications for this part of Ethiopia, but when David Buxton passed through in the later 1940s after the Italians had been defeated, he found that "there is little traffic in these days, and Mega has almost reverted to the sleepy remoteness of pre-Italian times."
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