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Dewele (French ''Douanlé'') is a town on the Ethiopia and Djibouti border. Located in the Shinile Zone in the Somali Region this town has a longitude and latitude of with an elevation of 898 meters above sea level. Nearby towns and villages include Dikhil (15.8 nm), Ali Sabieh (8.7 nm), Assamo (9.5 nm), Rahele (10.7 nm), Ferate (11.2 nm) and Meru (13.1 nm). Dewele is served by a station on the Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway. It serves as an official crossing point between Djibouti and Ethiopia, with a customs post. In the mid-1960s, gypsum was excavated near the town, then transported to a factory in Dire Dawa to be used in the manufacture cement and plaster of Paris.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 23 July 1009)〕 == History == Dewele was the first point inside the boundaries of Ethiopia to receive train service. The first train ran between Djibouti City and Dewele on 22 July 1901, requiring 5½ hours to make the trip with four halts for water.〔Richard Pankhurst, ''Economic History of Ethiopia'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 315. For some reason Pankhurst calls this settlement "Douanle".〕 In 1907, the Englishmen Bentley and Wells drove a Siddeley automobile from the Red Sea coast to Addis Ababa. They feigned to go to Jaldessa but headed for Dewele instead, to mislead potential ''shifta'' or bandits.〔 During the Djibouti Civil War, Ethiopians who were living in that country and worked in various sectors were forced by the Djibouti military to leave that country with whatever they could quickly gather. By February 2001, many had taken refuge in and around Dewele.〔 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「Dewele」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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