Dangla

Dangila is a city in northwestern Ethiopia. Located within the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region, this city has a range and longitude of 11°16′N 36°50′ECoordinates: 11°16′N 36°50′E with an elevation of 2137 meters above sea level. It is the biggest of three cities in Dangila woreda. One of the earliest mentions of Dangila became whilst the Emperor Susenyos passed thru the town in 1620.

As past due because the Thirties, Dangila turned into an crucial center of the African slave exchange. Nagadras Habtewerq, director of customs in the metropolis throughout the early 1930s, executed a measure of achievement in releasing slaves no matter the determined competition of influential Gojjame figures just like the slaver Fitawrari Zelleqe. The British maintained a consulate in Dangila in the 20s and 1930s, manned by way of R.E. Cheesman, who spent a considerable amount of power mapping Agawmeder and nearby Gojjam. Dangila has performed a position in Ethiopian literature. As a young guy, Haddis Alemayehu, who was to grow to be the foremost Amharic fiction writer, served for 2 years as a customs clerk at Dangila in the early 1930s.