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Gidole is a town in southern Ethiopia, and is the administrative center of the Dirashe special woreda. Located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, it sits at a latitude and longitude of with an elevation ranging from 2045 to 2650 meters above sea level. The town is named after the Gidole or Gardulla people, an ethnic group inhabiting southern Ethiopia better known as the Dirashe.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 13 December 2007)〕 Currently 9 different ethnic groups live in Gidole and 5 different languages are being spoken:〔Emiru Mulatu (resident in Gidole)〕 “derashegna”, “busigna”, “masholo”,”kusicho(Gatogna)” and “werozigna”. They use different musical instruments for their causual holiday celebrations. “Kirar”, “mira”,”kultato(Washint)”,”phila” and “lolata are among many. ==History== According to Oscar Rudolph Neumann, who visited the town in 1902, Gidole was the seat of the queen of the Dirashe until the Ethiopians under Menelik II conquered them; the woman was still alive at the time of Neumann's visit.〔Oscar Neumann, "From the Somali Coast through Southern Ethiopian to the Sudan", ''Geographical Journal'', 20 (October 1902), pp. 373-398〕 During the Italian occupation, the occupiers opened a post office in Gidole on either 11 or 17 November 1937; the sources are unclear about the exact date.〔 In the 1950s, Gidole was the administrative center of one of the provinces, Gemu Gofa Teklay Gizat, which was later incorporated to create Gamu-Gofa province. During the next decade, Islam won converts in the area and a mosque was built in the town. At the same time, Borana caravans supplied the market in Gidole with salt.〔 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「Gidole」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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