Dembi Dolo

Dembi Dollo, previously Sayo or Saio, is a market city and separate woreda in south-western Ethiopia. it's far the capital of Kelam Welega sector of the Oromia area. Dambi Dolo is understood for goldsmith work and for tej manufacturing. The metropolis also possesses an airport. firstly called Sayo, after the semi-autonomous state that had dominated in this location within the years after 1900, by 1920 this city served as the seat of the governors of this part of south-western Ethiopia till the Italian conquest.

Richard Pankhurst notes that during this era Dembidolo was "a first-rate commercial centre for coffee, in which by the 1930's perhaps 500,000 pounds of beans, besides big portions of wax and skins, had been exported each 12 months to the Sudan." Emperor Iyasu V visited Dembidolo round 1912, and turned into welcomed through Dejazmach Jote. by way of 1958 Dembi Dollo have become considered one of 27 locations in Ethiopia ranked as First class Township. That equal 12 months, the commercial bank of Ethiopia opened a branch in the city.