Awash

Awash is a marketplace city in vital Ethiopia. Located in Administrative Zone three of the Afar Region, above a gorge at the Awash River, and then the town is known as, the metropolis lies at the Addis Ababa, Djibouti Railway, which crosses the gorge by means of a bridge there. It is the most important settlement in Awash Fentale woreda. An iron bridge over the Awash were constructed at the present area of Awash by way of Emperor Menelik II's favorite, Alfred Ilg, round 1890; this bridge replaced an in advance timber one.

The construction needed to face the fantastic problem of transporting the girders from Djibouti, but as soon as the material had arrived, the structure had been completed in ten days; however Emperor Menelik had used for different purposes the cement imported from Europe to construct the bridge with. When Count Gleichen encountered the bridge in 1897, throughout his venture to Emperor Menelik, he found "the bridge would be too susceptible to stand something however ordinary %-animal traffic.