Jijiga

Jijiga is a city inside the Somali area of Ethiopia. It became the capital of the Somali nearby kingdom in 1995 after it turned into moved from Godey . positioned inside the Faafan quarter with 60 km west of the border with Somalia, the metropolis has an elevation of one,609 metres above sea level. inside the medieval instances, Jigjiga changed into under the Adal Sultanate domain. Jijiga was noted by way of W.C. Barker in 1842 as one of the mahalla or halting-places of the caravan route among Zeila and Harar. A British hunter Colonel Swayne passed through Jijiga in February 1893, which he described as a stockaded citadel with a garrison of 25 men subsequent to a set of wells. according to I. M. Lewis, Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's guys invaded Jijiga in March 1900.

even though the attackers suffered heavy losses, which allowed the Ethiopian authorities to claim a victory, Sayyid Mohammed's guys recovered cattle that the Ethiopians had taken from the Somalis and proved that his was a pressure to be reckoned with. however, Richard Pankhurst states that Jijiga was founded in 1916 by way of Fitawrari Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam, who had the metropolis methodically organized in a square grid of streets.