Jiren

Jiren
Jiren
Village
	Jiren Location within Ethiopia
	Coordinates: 7°42′04″N 36°52′20″E / 7.70117°N 36.87219°E
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Oromia
Zone	Jimma Zone
Founded in	1830
Founded by	Abba Jifar I

Jiren was the former capital of the Kingdom of Jimma, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Today it is a village or suburb^[1] on the outskirts of the city of Jimma, consisting of approximately 2500 unregistered households.^[2]

History

Jiren was founded in the reign of Abba Jifar I (1830–1855), the first king of the Kingdom of Jimma.^[3]

Following the death of Abba Jifar II in 1932, the Kingdom of Jimma was annexed by the Ethiopian Empire and Jiren declined as a political centre. Writing in 1965, Herbert S. Lewis observed that the palace complex had disappeared and it had "shrunken to a settlement of a few hundred people who run some shops, bars and brothels".^[4] Most of its residents moved to Hirmata, which in 1936 was amalgamated with Jiren by the Italian colonial administration to form the new city of Jimma, the capital of Galla-Sidamo Governorate.^[5]

Notes

^ "History in Jimma, Ethiopia". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
^ Abebe, Misgana Secho; Derebew, Kiros Tsegaye; Gemeda, Dessalegn Obsi (25 February 2019). "Exploiting temporal-spatial patterns of informal settlements using GIS and remote sensing technique: a case study of Jimma city, Southwestern Ethiopia". Environmental Systems Research. 8 (1): 6. doi:10.1186/s40068-019-0133-5. ISSN 2193-2697.
^ Seifu & Záhořík 2017, pp. 51–52.
^ Lewis 2001, p. 69.
^ Seifu & Záhořík 2017, pp. 58–59.

References

Lewis, Herbert S. (2001). Jimma Abba Jifar, an Oromo monarchy: Ethiopia, 1830–1932. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press. ISBN 9781569020883.
Seifu, Yonas; Záhořík, Jan (2017). "Jimma Town: Foundation and Early Growth from ca. 1830 to 1936". Ethnologia Actualis. 17 (2): 46–63. doi:10.2478/eas-2018-0003.

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[1] "History in Jimma, Ethiopia". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 28 November 2020.

[2] Abebe, Misgana Secho; Derebew, Kiros Tsegaye; Gemeda, Dessalegn Obsi (25 February 2019). "Exploiting temporal-spatial patterns of informal settlements using GIS and remote sensing technique: a case study of Jimma city, Southwestern Ethiopia". Environmental Systems Research. 8 (1): 6. doi:10.1186/s40068-019-0133-5. ISSN 2193-2697.

[FOOTNOTESeifuZáhořík201751–52-3] Seifu & Záhořík 2017, pp. 51–52.

[FOOTNOTELewis200169-4] Lewis 2001, p. 69.

[FOOTNOTESeifuZáhořík201758–59-5] Seifu & Záhořík 2017, pp. 58–59.

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