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Bedele (also called Buno Bedele) is a town and separate woreda in southwestern Ethiopia. Located in the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of and an elevation between above sea level. == History == Ras Tessema Nadew made his capital near Bedele in the early 1900s. Henry Savage Landor passed through the town in 1906.〔 The map attached to C. W. Gwynn's account of his 1908/09 triangulation survey of southern Ethiopia shows that Bedele had a telegraph station, connected by way of Gore.〔Gwynn, ("A Journey in Southern Abyssinia", ''Geographical Journal'' ), 38 (1911), pp. 113-139〕 The Buno Bedele Health Center was built in 1966 with a majority of Swedish donations.〔 The road connecting Bedele to Agaro, long, was completed in 1968 at a cost of 12 million dollars (Ethiopian), by the French company Razel Frères. Construction on a road to Metu began around 1970.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 16 November 2007)〕 Bedele is also the headquarters for the Bedele Brewery.〔(Bedele Brewery website )〕 Founded in 1993, Bedele is a formerly government-owned corporation, producing about 75 million bottles of beer each year for domestic and export customers; it was bought by Heineken in August 2011.〔(Heineken and the famine: Refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach ) an August 18, 2011 blog post from ''The Economist''〕 In February 2009, Regional President Abadula Gemeda laid the cornerstone for a new cultural center in Bedele. At the same time, he officially opened the new technical and vocational college in the town.〔("Bedele to Get Cultural Center" ), Ethiopian News Agency website, dated 22 February 2009 (accessed 14 April 2009)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bedele」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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