Dese

Dessie is a city and a zone in north-vital Ethiopia. Located inside the Amhara Region, it sits at a range and longitude of 11°8′N 39°38′E, with an elevation among 2,470 and a couple of,550 metres above sea degree. Prior to Dessie's foundation, the principal settlement on this place become Wasal, first stated in an early 16th-century Italian itinerary.

Emperor Yohannes IV become camping in the highlands to the west of the Chefa Valley in 1882 on an excursion to forecefully convert the Muslim Wollo who lived within the region to Christianity. As he become searching out an area to centralize his power inside the newly conquered location of Wollo, he stayed overnight in a pre-current town that is now contained inside Dessie. While there, he spotted a comet. He turned into so inspired by means of the sight of it that he interpreted it to be a signal from heaven to determine his capital metropolis there. Thus, he named it Dessie as a connection with the elation that the comet had made him sense.