Jimma ( Oromo : Jimmaa ) is the largest city in southwestern Oromia Region , Ethiopia . It is a special zone of the Oromia Region and is surrounded by Jimma Zone . Prior to the 2007 census, Jimma was reorganized administratively as a special Zone .
15-522: What is now Jimma's northern suburb of Jiren was the capital of the Kingdom of Jimma . Originally named Hirmata , the city owed its importance in the 19th century to being located on the caravan route between Shewa and Kaffa , as well as being only six miles from the palace of Abba Jifar II . According to Donald Levine, in the early 19th century the market attracted thousands of people from neighboring regions: "Oromo from Gojjam and Shoa, Oromo from all
30-464: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research ( EIAR ) is a research institute for agricultural study in Ethiopia . has evolved through several stages since its initiation during the late 1940s, following the establishment of the agricultural and technical school of Ambo and Jimma . Until
45-453: Is a Federal Agricultural Research Institute. EIAR is responsible for the running of federal research centers , and regional research institutes are administered by the regional governments . In addition to conducting research at its federal centers, EIAR is charged with the responsibility for providing the overall coordination of agricultural research countrywide, and advising Government on agricultural research policy formulation. Currently,
60-554: Is a village or suburb on the outskirts of the city of Jimma , consisting of approximately 2500 unregistered households . Jiren was founded in the reign of Abba Jifar I (1830–1855), the first king of the Kingdom of Jimma. Following the death of Abba Jifar II in 1932, the Kingdom of Jimma was annexed by the Ethiopian Empire and Jiren declined as a political centre. Writing in 1965, Herbert S. Lewis observed that
75-598: Is the Jimma Research Center, founded in 1968, which is run by the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research . The Center specializes in agricultural research , including serving as the national center for research to improve the yield of coffee and spices. Football is the most popular sport in Jimma. The 50,00 0-capacity Jimma University Stadium is the largest venue by capacity in Jimma. It
90-592: Is their king, Abba Jifar, a very clever man, who submitted to Menelik at the right time and, therefore, retained his country” The present town was developed on the Awetu River by the Italian colonial regime in the 1930s. At that time, with the goal of weakening the native Ethiopian Church , the Italians intended to make Jimma an important center of Islamic learning, and founded an academy to teach fiqh . In
105-495: Is used mostly for football matches. Jimma is served by Aba Jifar (Jimma) Airport . The airport completed a renovation in 2015 in order to accommodate larger aircraft and more passengers. Within the city limits, people take bajajs (similar to “tuk-tuks”) or “line taxis” that are converted mini vans. Jiren (city) Jiren was the former capital of the Kingdom of Jimma , in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Today it
120-533: The East African fighting of World War II after their main force was defeated, the Italian garrison at Jimma was one of the last to surrender, holding out until July 1941. Following the death of Abba Jifar II of Jimma in 1932, the Kingdom of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia. During the reorganization of the provinces in 1942, Jimma vanished into Kaffa Province . Herbert S. Lewis states that in
135-621: The Ethiopian government announced that it had secured a loan of US$ 98 million from the African Development Bank to pave the 227 kilometers of highway between Jimma and Mizan Teferi to the southwest. The loan was to cover 64% of the 1,270.97 million Birr budgeted for this project. Jimma has a relatively cool tropical monsoon climate ( Köppen Am ). It features a long annual wet season from March to October. Afternoon temperatures at Jimma are very warm year-round, with
150-747: The Gibe Kingdoms and numerous representatives of the Lacustrine and Omotic groups, including Timbaro, Qabena, Kefa, Janjero, Welamo, Konta and several others". At the very beginning of the 20th century, the German explorer Oscar Neumann visited Jimma on his journey from the Somali coast through Ethiopia to the Sudan. As he observed, “Jimma is almost the richest land of Abyssinia; the inhabitants are pure, well-built Galla; they are nearly all Mohammedans, as
165-575: The daily maximum usually staying between 24 and 27 °C (75.2 and 80.6 °F). Morning temperatures are even more consistent, being at a cool-to-pleasant 12 to 13 °C (53.6 to 55.4 °F) virtually every day. A few buildings have survived from the time of the Jimma Kingdom, including the Palace of Abba Jifar . The city is home to a museum , Jimma University , several markets , and an airport ( ICAO code HAJM, IATA JIM). Also of note
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#1732772766220180-545: The early 1960s it was "the greatest market in all of south-western Ethiopia. On a good day in the dry season, it attracts up to 30,000 people. Jimma was the scene of a violent encounter which started in April 1975 between radical college students (known as zemacha ) sent to organize local peasants, who had benefited from land reform , and local police, who had sided with local landowners. Students and peasant followers had imprisoned local small landowners, rich peasants and members of
195-666: The local police force; this action led to further unrest, causing the Derg (the ruling junta ) to send a special delegation to Jimma, which sided with the local police. In the end, 24 students were killed, more arrested, and the local zemacha camps closed. Days before the end of the Ethiopian Civil War in May 1991, the city was captured by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front . On 13 December 2006,
210-528: The mid-1960s the Imperial College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts—now Haramaya University —with its Agricultural Experiment Station at Bishoftu —now Debre-Zeit Agricultural Research Center (DZARC)—was the major research entity. The establishment of the then Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) in 1966 saw the first nationally coordinated agricultural research system in Ethiopia. The EIAR
225-405: The palace complex had disappeared and it had "shrunken to a settlement of a few hundred people who run some shops, bars and brothels". Most of its residents moved to Hirmata, which in 1936 was amalgamated with Jiren by the Italian colonial administration to form the new city of Jimma , the capital of Galla-Sidamo Governorate . This article about a location in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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