Bichena

Bichena is a city in west-important Ethiopia. Located inside the Misraq Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region on the hillside overlooking the Abay River, it has a range and longitude of 10°27′N 38°12′E and an elevation of 2541 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Enemay woreda.

Bichena changed into important within the 18th century because the capital of the province of Gojjam; C.T. Beke, who visited the metropolis in November 1841, reviews that the metropolis that's pleasantly located on a low eminence changed into surrounded by means of strong stone walls and maximum of the homes were of stone too; but According to the locals, the church had lost the lands it trusted throughout the governorship of Ras Hailu Tekle Haymanot, and afterwards suffered from overlook. This can be the same church that L.A. Fuertes mentions seeing in 1936. Bichena became the scene of a bloodbath through the Derg in August 1975, while a delegation visited to provide an explanation for the which means of land reform.