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Tselemti
ጸለምቲ (Tigrinya) | |
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| Country |  Ethiopia |
| Region |  Tigray |
| Zone | Semien Mi'irabawi (North Western) |
| Administrative center | Mai Tsebri |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,858.66 km2 (1,489.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 158,000 |
Tselemti (Tigrinya: ጸለምቲ, lit. 'blackish') is an Ethiopian District, or woreda, in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.[1] Part of the Semien Mi'irabawi (North Western) Zone, Tselemti is bordered on the south by the Amhara Region, on the west by the Mi'irabawi Zone, on the north by Asigede Tsimbela, on the northeast by Medebay Zana, and on the east by the Maekelay (Central Area) Zone. The Tekezé defines the boundary between Tselemti and both the last two woredas and the Zone; other rivers in this woreda include the Abata, a tributary of the Tekezé. The administrative center of this woreda is Mai Tsebri; other towns in Tselemti include Dima.
- ^ C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954), p. 243. The earliest surviving mention of this area is in the Futuh al-Habasha, written shortly after 1559. (Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst [Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003], p. 84). Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton. The Historical Geography of Ethiopia: From the First Century Ad to 1704. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.