Jiren
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]
Jiren | |
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Village | |
  Jiren Location within Ethiopia | |
| Coordinates: 7.70117°N 36.87219°E | |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Region | Oromia |
| Zone | Jimma Special Zone |
| Founded in | 1830 |
| Founded by | Abba Jifar I |
History
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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.