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  2. 1972–1975 Wollo famine - Wikipedia

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    The Wollo famine is regarded as one of the main root causes of Haile Selassie's government collapse. It has been estimated that the death toll reached 250,000 people in 1975. [ 1 ] This coupled the peasants revolution in Ethiopia, which continued through the successive Derg regime.

  3. Famines in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Famines in Ethiopia have occurred periodically throughout the history of the country. The economy was based on subsistence agriculture , with an aristocracy that consumed the surplus. Due to a number of causes, the peasants have lacked incentives to either improve production or to store their excess crops; as a result, they lived from harvest ...

  4. 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    The Derg addressed the Wollo famine by creating the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) to examine the causes of the famine and prevent its recurrence, and then abolishing feudal tenure in March 1975. The RRC initially enjoyed more independence from the Derg than any other ministry, largely due to its close ties to foreign donors and the ...

  5. Dessie - Wikipedia

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    In 1957, Dessie had one of 9 provincial secondary schools (excluding Eritrea) in Ethiopia, named after Woizero Sehine the daughter of Negus Mikael. [4] In February 1973, a crowd of 1,500 peasants marched from Dessie to the capital to make the authorities notice the famine in Wollo. They were stopped by police on the outskirts of Addis Ababa and ...

  6. Tenta (woreda) - Wikipedia

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    Tenta (Amharic: ተንታ) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Tenta is bordered on the south by Legambo, on the southwest by Sayint, on the west by Magdala, on the north by the Bashilo River which separates it from Semien Wollo Zone, on the northeast by Ambassel, on the east by Kutaber and on the southeast by Dessie Zuria.

  7. Wollo Province - Wikipedia

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    A rock-hewn church of Lalibela. Today's Wollo was long the center of Ethiopia (half under Agew/Zagwe and half under the Solomonic leadership). The people of Amhara and Zagwe Provinces (today's Wollo) were the strongest adherents of Christianity and both believed in Israelite Semitic Biblical Ancestry Zagwe claimed lineage from Moses while the Solomonids claimed lineage from Solomon, and the ...

  8. Amba Geshen - Wikipedia

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    Part of Ambassel woreda, Amba Geshen is one of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia were interned, usually for life. Also known as Gishen Mariam , it was the second of the three such mountains, or amba , said to have been used for this purpose, the other two being Debre Damo and Wehni .

  9. South Wollo Zone - Wikipedia

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    Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this Zone has a total population of 4,518,862, an increase of 18.60% over the 1994 census, of whom 1,248,698 are men and 1,270,164 women; with an area of 17,067.45 square kilometers, South Wollo has a population density of 147.58. While 301,638 or 11.98% are ...

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