Jijiga

Jijiga is a city within the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It have become the capital of the Somali Regional State in 1995 after it turned into moved from Godey . Located within the Faafan region with 60 km west of the border with Somalia, the city has an elevation of 1,609 metres above sea stage. In the medieval times, Jigjiga become beneath the Adal Sultanate domain. Jijiga turned into stated by W.C. Barker in 1842 as one of the mahalla or halting-locations of the caravan course between Zeila and Harar. A British hunter Colonel Swayne passed thru Jijiga in February 1893, which he described as a stockaded citadel with a garrison of 25 guys next to a collection of wells. According to I. M.

Lewis, Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's men invaded Jijiga in March 1900. Although the attackers suffered heavy losses, which allowed the Ethiopian government to claim a victory, Sayyid Mohammed's guys recovered livestock that the Ethiopians had taken from the Somalis and proved that his was a pressure to be reckoned with. However, Richard Pankhurst states that Jijiga become founded in 1916 by means of Fitawrari Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam, who had the town methodically organized in a square grid of streets.