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About Mendī
Mendi (Amharic:መንዲ; also transliterated Mandi) is a town in western Ethiopia. Located in the West Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 9°36′N 35°36′E with an elevation of 1821 meters above sea level.
From the Wikipedia article Mendi, Oromia (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Dejazmach constructed a church in Mendi in 1893. However, when the Dejazmach regained his rights to levy taxes over his father's former kingdom in 1907, the central government excepted the "gate" of Mendi, which was retained to the customs office in Nekemte. "This sealed the right of the centre to fiscal control over Nekemte, a right that Addis Abeba was never to abandon in the years to come."
By the 1930s, Mendi had become an important market of coffee. It attracted the attention of a Swedish pastor who established a mission there. The missionaries were accused of wrongdoing by the local Ethiopian priest to the Italians in 1938, who eventually expelled them; the Swedish mission was not revived until 1946. Mendi hosted a conference of Ethiopian Evangelical Churches in January 1954; the mission had to confront Muslim missionaries from Sudan in the next year, who converted 1000 people in a neighboring locale.
John Young believes that "at least a small contingent of the OLF is able to operate in the Mendi area ... on a semi-permanent basis" since the 2005 Ethiopian general election.
From the History section of Mendi, Oromia on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Mendi Airport (NDM) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 4 km away.
- Bambesi 41 km west, about 41 min by car
- Nejo 55 km southeast, about 55 min by car
- Āsosa 69 km northwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
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