Awrajja (Amharic: አውራጃ) were the third-level country subdivisions which subdivided the Provinces of Ethiopia prior to 1996. Awrajja roughly translates to "county" or "sub-province", and contained a number of "woreda" or districts, the fourth level subdivision of Ethiopia. In 1996, the provinces and awrajja of Ethiopia were replaced with Regions (Kilil) and Zones, and Awrajja ceased to serve an administrative function, though they retain cultural significance.[1]
^Mulatu Wubneh (2017). "Ethnic Identity Politics and the Restructuring of Administrative Units in Ethiopia". International Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 11 (1 & 2): 105–138. JSTOR 26586251 – via JSTOR.
Awrajja (Amharic: አውራጃ) were the third-level country subdivisions which subdivided the Provinces of Ethiopia prior to 1996. Awrajja roughly translates...
a zone was called an awrajja, and many zones today are named the same as their earlier awrajja, but the terms zone and awrajja are not interchangeable...
Historically, Ethiopia was divided into provinces, further subdivided into awrajjas or districts, until they were replaced by ethnolinguistic-based regions...
century. For example, while the government appointed a governor to the awrajja (district) of Aussa proper, the governor, rather than taking up residence...
center of Merti woreda. Prior to 1995, it was the capital of Arba Gugu awrajja. According to the Oromia Regional government, this town currently has telephone...
the Federated Eritrean Government from 1952 to 1962 and as districts (awrajja) in Eritrea when it was annexed by Ethiopia from 1962 to 1991. After independence...
associated with Bulga prior to the Oromo expansion, after which it became a awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa. The region was home to the important Debre...
Tigray is still used by rural people of Tigray as referring only to Adwa awrajja, while other regions of modern Tigray are still considered to be "outside...
the 1960s and 1970s, Bahir Dar grew rapidly, being the capital of the awrajja by the same name in the Gojjam province. The central government developed...
Gebreyesus and Melashu Weldegabir. His family originated from the Enderta awrajja of Tigray. Tedros recalled that as a child he was very aware of the suffering...
leading to the first shots fired in March of that year in the El Kere Awrajja (sub-province). The local population refused to pay both the newly introduced...
was appointed to his first government post as district governor of Ambo awrajja (then known as Hager Selam). As district governor Le'ul Dejazmach Mengesha...
there were 600 tractors, 80 bulldozers, and 30 Cessna planes in the Aussa awrajja, a large amount relative to the rest of the country. The Sultan also opened...
With the adoption of ethnic federalism in 1994 and the abolishment of the Awrajja administrative structure, Yejju was divided between the districts of Habru...
the center of Yifat and Timuga awrajja in Shewa province. Ataye town served as the capital of Yifat & Timuga awrajja, as well as the Efrata-Jille woreda...
Enderta province, when Enderta was an independent province as well as an awrajja as recent as the late 1990s. Wemberta was occupied by the Ethiopian People's...
and Kibebew, 2015, p. 1597; Israel Arage, “A History of Wadla Dälanta Awrajja (1855-1974),” (MA Thesis: Addis Ababa University, June 2011), pp. 3-4....
remoteness from the center. Tanqua Millash was a constituent of the old Tembien awrajja. In 2020, the earlier district Abergele became inoperative and its territory...
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