Dangila
ዳንግላ | |
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| Zone | Agew Awi |
| Region | Amhara |
| Area | |
| • Total | 918.40 km2 (354.60 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 est.) | |
| • Total | 174,981 [1] |
Dangila (Amharic: ዳንግላ) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after the former district, Dangila, which James Bruce notes was in his day known for its breed of sheep.[2] Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Dangila is bordered on the south by Faggeta Lekoma, on the southwest by Guangua, on the northwest by the Jawi, and on the northeast by the Mirab Gojjam Zone. Towns in Dangila include Addis Alem, Dangila and Dek. Part of the Dangila was separated to create Jawi woreda.
Dangila was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as an area for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopulated areas. Along with Lay Armachiho and Qwara in the Amhara Region, and Tsegede in the Tigray Region, became the new homes of 8,671 families.[3] This was reportedly accompanied with almost 68 million Birr in infrastructure development.[4]
- ^ a b Geohive: Ethiopia Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, selected and edited with an introduction by C.F. Beckingham (Edinburgh: University Press, 1964), p. 173.
- ^ "More than 15,500 households resettled in Amhara, SNNP and Oromia states" Walta Information Center (WIC)
- ^ "Close to 69mln birr infrastructural dev't works carried out in resettlement sites in Amhara state" (WIC)