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About Dejen
Dejen (also transliterated Dajen) is a town in west-central Ethiopia. Located in the Misraq Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region on the edge of the canyon of the Abay, it has a latitude and longitude of 10°10′N 38°8′E and an elevation between 2421 and 2490 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Dejen woreda.
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History
Dejen is named after the traditional district it lies in, Dejen, which is best known as where Admas Mogasa, the widow of Emperor Menas, raised the future Emperor Susenyos and instructed him in "the doctrine of the holy books."
P. H. G. Powell-Cotton, who camped there in March 1900, described Dejen as "a little village of a dozen huts or so perched on the steep side of the valley of the Mogga, and only remarkable as being the first village on the Gojam side" of the Abay.
The town was subjected to long-distance shelling on 16 April 1991, after its capture by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, and six people were killed.
By the end of August 2021, an internal note of the EU delegation in Ethiopia mentioned that the Oromo Liberation Army had established itself around the Blue Nile gorge, with a check point on the main road between Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar near the bridge at Dejen.
From the History section of Dejen on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Debre Markos Airfield (DBM) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 46 km away.
- Lumamē 24 km northwest, about 24 min by car
- Bichena 32 km north, about 32 min by car
- Dayē 35 km southeast, about 35 min by car
- Debre Mark’os 48 km northwest, about 48 min by car
- Gebre Guracha 50 km southeast, about 50 min by car
- Debre Werk’ 56 km north, about 56 min by car
- Kachīsī 71 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Mertule Maryam 76 km north, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Fichē 77 km southeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Dembech’a 83 km northwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
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