Faggeta Lekoma | |
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| Zone | Agew Awi |
| Region | Amhara |
| Area | |
| • Total | 653.39 km2 (252.28 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 est.) | |
| • Total | 137,428[1] |
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Faggeta Lekoma (Amharic: ፋግታ ለኮማ) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The woreda is named in part after two former districts: Faggeta, best known as the location for the Battle of Faggeta (9 December 1769), where Ras Mikael Sehul with the help of Goshu of Amhara and Wand Bewossen defeated Fasil of Damot;[3] and Lekoma, where Emperor Susenyos quashed a revolt of the local Agaw in 1614.[4] Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Faggeta Lekoma is bordered on the south by Banja Shekudad, on the west by Guangua, on the north by Dangila, and on the east by the Mirab Gojjam Zone. Towns in Faggeta Lekoma include Addis Kidame and Faggeta.
- ^ "GeoHive - Ethiopia population statistics". www.geohive.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ a b Geohive: Ethiopia Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, selected and edited with an introduction by C.F. Beckingham (Edinburgh: University Press, 1964), p. 61.
- ^ G.W.B. Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 166