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About Chagni
Chagni (Amharic: ቻግኒ) (also known as Kedamawi Haile Selassie Ber) is a town in North Western Ethiopia. Located in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of 10°57′N 36°30′E and an elevation of 1583 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Guangua woreda; in the past Chagni was the administrative center of the Metekel awraja.
From the Wikipedia article Chagni (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
The British explorer Charles Beke visited Chagni on its market day, 17 March 1842, and found the town inhabited mostly by "Shánkalas (the Nubas of the maps), who are negroes", who fled at his appearance out of fear: "fine tall muscular men, armed with spear and knife, hurrying away and hiding themselves among the bushes as I approached".
In the 1950s, Chagni was administered by Fitawrari Embiale Gessess, whom witnesses state incorporated the current city of Chagni, and he is the father of Gebeyaw Embiale. Chagni was on the frontier between two ethnic groups who were frequently in conflict: the Gumuz and the Amhara. The Gumuz reportedly rebelled against Ethiopian rule four separate times between 1950 and 1990. However once the border between the two regions was drawn in 1992, dividing the former Metekel awraja between them, tensions lessened and local elders were able to negotiate peaceful reconciliations between the two groups. Around 1957, the primary school in Chagni was at the westernmost end of the telephone lines in Gojjam.
Famous people born in Chagni include the Ethiopian singer Gigi, as well as Gebeyaw Embiale, the Ethiopian mechanical engineer known in Ethiopia for designing components used in the Airbus 380 aircraft.
From the History section of Chagni on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Beles (PWI) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 41 km away.
- Gimja Bēt Maryam 43 km east, about 43 min by car
- Ginja Bet 44 km east, about 44 min by car
- Ādīs K’idamē 44 km east, about 44 min by car
- Injibara 45 km east, about 45 min by car
- Dibate 46 km southwest, about 46 min by car
- Mambuk 48 km northwest, about 48 min by car
- Dangila 50 km northeast, about 50 min by car
- Tīlīlī 57 km east, about 57 min by car
- Shendi 60 km southeast, about 1 h by car
- Burē 68 km southeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
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