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Gore is a town in southwestern Ethiopia. Located south of Metu in the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2085 meters. Gore is known for its honey. The map attached to C. W. Gwynn's account of his 1908/09 triangulation survey of southern Ethiopia shows that Gore had a telegraph station.〔Gwynn, ("A Journey in Southern Abyssinia", ''Geographical Journal'' ), 38 (1911), pp. 113-139〕 During the 1960s, experimental tea plantations were started around Gore in the 1960s, and a number of them thrived. The Gummaro plantation near Gore, with 800 hectares, is the largest tea plantation in Ethiopia.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 27 November 2007)〕 == History == Gore was founded in the nineteenth century, growing up around ''Ras'' Tessema Nadew's palace. The Russian explorer Alexander Bulatovich stopped here 21 November 1896, expecting to meet ''Ras'' Tessema, who was away campaigning against the Mocha; ''Ras'' Tessema had not returned when Bulatovich left on 31 December.〔(''From Entotto to the River Baro'' ) (1897), translated by Richard Selzer, ''Ethiopia through Russian Eyes: Country in Transition, 1896-1898'' (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 2000) ISBN 1-56902-117-1 (accessed 2 November 2009)〕 With the growing prosperity of the port town of Gambela, and the growth of the Baro River route to Sudan, Gore likewise prospered, holding two market days a week. Richard Pankhurst describes the pre-World War I community as having five foreign trading concerns -- "two Greek, one Syrian, one British and one German"—engaged in the export of coffee, wax, and to a lesser extent animal hides, and the import of cotton cloth, salt, and other manufactured goods. Civet cat oil was also a significant export at the time, Pankhurst noting that ''Ras'' Tessema exported 42 kilos in 1910. On 9 July 1927, the Greek nationals T. Zewos and A. Donalis were awarded a contract to link the town and Gore by road with Gambela, a distance of 180 kilometers.〔Pankhurst, ''Economic History'', pp. 290f〕 However, the road from Jimma to Gore was not yet built by 1935. A trip to Addis Ababa took 20–22 days for pack mules and 14–15 days for riding mules. The mail transport from Gore to the capital departed every Monday at 17.00 while the government telephone line was used also as telegraph connection.〔 Later Ras Imru Haile Selassie attempted to use Gore as his base to resist the forces of the occupying Italian forces, but hostility from the local Welega Oromo forced him to move from the town late in October, 1936.〔Anthony Mockler, ''Haile Selassie's War'' (New York: Olive Branch, 2003), pp. 163-166〕 On 26 November 1936, the Italian 1st Eritrean Brigade occupied the town.〔 After World War II, Gore served as the capital of Illubabor province, until 1978 when Metu became the capital. 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「Gore, Ethiopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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