Were Ilu (Amharic: ወረ ኢሉ; Oromo: Warra Illu) is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 10°36′N39°26′E / 10.600°N 39.433°E / 10.600; 39.433. From the 1870s, Were Ilu had a Thursday market.
The Medhane Alem church, dating from at least from the early 1900s, is a notable local landmark. Empress Zewditu was born at Were Ilu, and Ras Habte Maryam was buried there.[1]
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 10,062 of whom 4,942 were men and 5,120 were women.[2] The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 5,809 of whom 2,600 were males and 3,209 were females. It is the largest of three towns in Were Ilu woreda.
^"Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 3 January 2008)
WereIlu (Amharic: ወረ ኢሉ; Oromo: Warra Illu) is a town in north-central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a...
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outraged at his two vassals openly at war with each other and marched to WereIlu, just inside Menelik's borders, where he demanded the release of Tekle...
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made this journey... if only the car hadn't broken down... oh, if only we were amongst friends... Or sane persons," the audience sings the chorus of "Dayenu"...
Ugarit dating from the mid to late second millennium BC, in which the god ʾIlu becomes hungover after a drinking binge. The text includes a recipe for a...
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