![]() ![]() ĭire Dawa developed into two settlements separated by the Dechatu River, which was dry for most of the year and became a torrent only when it rained. By 1902 the Ethiopian government, anticipating the future economic importance of Dire Dawa, had already transferred the customs station for trade with the Red Sea from Gildessa to Dire Dawa. ![]() During all this time, Dire Dawa was practically the town profited much and became a "boom city", attracting most of the trade which formerly passed through Harar. The new name, however, did not win recognition.įor financial and diplomatic reasons the railway was not continued until 1909 and the final inauguration of the whole line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa-again delayed by the revolution of 1916-only took place on 7 June 1917. The railway reached this location on 24 December 1902, a date which may be considered the day of Dire Dawa's foundation. ![]() It owes its foundation to a technical problem: when it became impossible to lay the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway via Harar because of the steep access to the town, Emperor Menelik II accepted (in a later dated 5 November 1896) that the first part of the line might finish at a village at the foot of the mountains, which should be named Addis Harar ("New Harrar"). The present-day town of Dire Dawa (311 km by rail from Djibouti), however, is of very recent origin. The projected population for 2015 was 440,000 for the entire chartered city and 277,000 for the city proper, making the latter the seventh largest city in Ethiopia. The city is an industrial centre, home to several markets and the Dire Dawa Airport. The western outskirts of the city lie on the Gorro River, a tributary of the Dechatu River. It is divided administratively into two woredas, the city proper and the non-urban woreda of Gurgura.ĭire Dawa lies in the eastern part of the nation, on the Dechatu River, at the foot of a ring of cliffs. ![]() This was due to the ongoing clashes between the OLF and IGLF and prevented any further escalation. Dire Dawa alongside present-day Sitti Zone were apart of the Dire Dawa autonomous region stipulated in the 1987 Ethiopian Constitution until 1993 when it was split by the federal government into a separately administered chartered city. Dire Dawa ( Amharic: ድሬዳዋ, Oromo: Dirree Dhawaa, lit.'Place of Remedy' Somali: Diridhaba, meaning "where Dir hit his spear into the ground" or "The true Dir", Arabic: ديري داوا, ) is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Oromia and Somali Region border and one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia (the other being Addis Ababa, the capital). ![]()
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