Jiren

This article is about the historical city. For the Dragon Ball Super character, see Jiren (Dragon Ball).
Jiren
Village
Jiren is located in Ethiopia
Jiren
Jiren
Location within Ethiopia
Coordinates: 7°42′04″N 36°52′20″E / 7.70117°N 36.87219°E / 7.70117; 36.87219
CountryEthiopia
RegionOromia
ZoneJimma Zone
Founded in1830
Founded byAbba 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

Abba Jifar II's palace in Jiren

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

  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.
  3. ^ Seifu & Záhořík 2017, pp. 51–52.
  4. ^ Lewis 2001, p. 69.
  5. ^ Seifu & Záhořík 2017, pp. 58–59.

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