Sela Dingay
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 Sela Dingay
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| Coordinates: 9°58′N 39°38′E / 9.967°N 39.633°E | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | Amhara Region |
| Zone | Semien Shewa Zone |
| Elevation | 2,880 m (9,450 ft) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 2,707 (est) |
| Time zone | EAT (UTC+3) |
Sela Dingay is a town in central Ethiopia. In Amharic the name means the sharpened stone, named for a rock which rolled over the edge of the southern rim of the gorge of the Mofar River, and killed a group of people sitting on it. Located in the Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 09°58′N 39°38′E / 9.967°N 39.633°ECoordinates: 09°58′N 39°38′E / 9.967°N 39.633°E with elevations variously given as 2880 and 2915 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Mojana Wadera woreda.
According to Antonio Cecchi, Sela Dingay was founded by Wossen Seged in 1804, naming the town after the historic district of Sela Dingay, although the local Debre Mitmaq church had been founded by Emperor Zara Yaqob, where he convened the Council of Debre Mitmaq in 1450 which resolved a rift in the Ethiopian Church over the observance of the Sabbath. In any case, Negus Wossen Seged built a second church for the town. When Johann Ludwig Krapf visited Sela Dingay in March 1842, it was the residence of the Queen Dowager Zenebework. Following the conquest of Shewa by the newly crowned Emperor Tewodros II and the death of Negus Haile Melekot in 1855, the dowager queens retired to Sela Dingay, where Bezabish died around 1870 or 1871.
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