Dela, Ethiopia

Dela
Dala
Flag of Dela
CountryEthiopia
RegionTigray
ZoneDebubawi Zone
WoredaAlaje
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Dela or Dala is a town in southern Tigray, Ethiopia. It is one of the larger towns in the Alaje district. Historically, Dela was the administrative and capital city of Bora-Selewa woreda, which was part of Enderta province, when Enderta was an independent province as well as an awraja as recent as the late 1990s.[1][2][failed verification]

  1. ^ Ethiopian Mapping Authority, 1997
  2. ^ Sarah Vaughan, Ethnicity and Power in Ethiopia, PhD dissertation, p. 123, 2003