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About Dangila
Dangila (Amharic: ዳንግላ) is a town in northwestern Ethiopia. Located in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 11°16′N 36°50′E with an elevation of 2137 meters above sea level. It is the largest of three towns in Dangila woreda.
From the Wikipedia article Dangila (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
One of the earliest mentions of Dangila was when the Emperor Susenyos passed through the town in 1620.
As late as the 1930s, Dangila was an important center of the African slave trade. Nagadras Habtewerq, director of customs in the town during the early 1930s, achieved a measure of success in liberating slaves despite the determined opposition of influential figures like the slaver Fitawrari Zelleqe.
The British maintained a consulate in Dangila in the 1920s and 1930s, manned by R.E. Cheesman, who spent a considerable amount of energy mapping Agawmeder and nearby Gojjam.
Dangila has played a role in Ethiopian literature. As a young man, Haddis Alemayehu, who was to become the foremost Amharic fiction writer, served for two years as a customs clerk at Dangila in the early 1930s. When consul Cheesman left, the consulate building was turned into a primary school, and Haddis Alemayehu became its headmaster for a year. Another author is Abe Gubegna, who attended grades 1-8 at the Bitwedded Mengesha Jembere school in the 1950s.
From the History section of Dangila 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, 46 km away.
- Gurbetē 17 km northeast, about 17 min by car
- Ādīs K’idamē 21 km south, about 21 min by car
- Injibara 31 km south, about 31 min by car
- Mer’āwī 40 km northeast, about 40 min by car
- Gimja Bēt Maryam 47 km south, about 47 min by car
- Ginja Bet 47 km south, about 47 min by car
- Chagni 50 km southwest, about 50 min by car
- Tīlīlī 50 km southeast, about 50 min by car
- Burē 68 km south, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Bahir Dar 71 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
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