Ebenat
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Ebenat is a town in northern Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone
Debub Wollo Zone
Debub Wollo is one of 10 Zones in the Ethiopian Amhara Region. It acquired its name from the former province of Wollo.Debub Wollo is bordered on the south by Semien Shewa and the Oromia Region, on the west by Mirab Gojjam, on the northwest by Debub Gondar, on the north by Semien Wollo and on the...

 of the Amhara Region
Amhara Region
Amhara is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. Previously known as Region 3, its capital is Bahir Dar....

, Ebenat has a latitude and longitude of 12°7′N 38°3′E. It is the administrative center of Ebenat
Ebenat (woreda)
Ebenat is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the former district that lay roughly in the same area; the woreda itself dates from the mid 1960s...

 woreda
Woreda
Woreda is an administrative division of Ethiopia , equivalent to a district . Woredas are composed of a number of Kebele, or neighborhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government in Ethiopia...

.

History

Near Ebenat, on 17 January 1608 the Emperor Susenyos
Susenyos of Ethiopia
Susenyos was of Ethiopia...

 surprised an Oromo
Oromo people
The Oromo are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, .and parts of Somalia. With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and approximately 34.49% of the population according to the 2007 census...

 army; the Emperor's army killed 12,000 Oromo at a cost of 400 of their comrades.

When Charles Beke
Charles Tilstone Beke
Charles Tilstone Beke was an English traveller, geographer and Biblical critic. Born in Stepney, London, the son of a merchant in the City of London, for a few years Beke engaged in mercantile pursuits...

, left Ethiopia, he stayed in Ebenat from 15 to 21 March 1843. Beke described the town as "a place of no size, consisting merely of the residences of the Dejazmach and his family, with a few huts for their attendants. The market is however, very considerable -- lasting two days, Friday and Saturday -- it being the point where the merchants of Gojam, &c. meet those from Sokota
Soqota
Soqota is a town in northern Ethiopia. The name is likely from the Agaw word sekut, "fortified village." Located the Wag Hemra Zone of the Amhara Region, Soqota has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2266 meters above sea level...

 bringing salt, for which they give cloths, coffee, and a large number of cattle, oxen, and heifers brought from Gudera."

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency
Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)
The Central Statistical Agency is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growth, as well as to act as an official training center in that field. It is part of the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and...

in 2005, Ebenat has an estimated total population of 16,740 of whom 7,832 are men and 8,908 are women. The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 9,704 of whom 4,121 were men and 5,583 were women.
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