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Maji (also Machi) is a town in southern Ethiopia. It is located on the Boma Plateau, lying in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, and has a longitude and latitude of with an elevation variously given as 2104, 2258 and 2430 meters above sea level. The town is the administrative center for the Maji woreda. Postal service in Maji started at some time between 1923-1932. From the 1930s the town had a customs post and a telephone station.〔("Local History in Ethiopia" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 14 February 2008)〕 The town is served by Tume Airport (ICAO code HAMJ). == History == Maji was founded around 1897 when Ras Welde Giyorgis stationed a garrison of Ethiopian soldiers near the lands of the ''ture'', a personage Garretson describes as "the most powerful and respected religious figure in the area." Garretson explains how an administrative center for the region soon followed: "Built on a commanding hill were a fortified encampment of ''gibbi'' (the personal headquarters of the governor), a church and a market. All were carefully observed and guarded by the governor and his retinue of soldiers."〔Peter P. Garretson "Vicious cycles: ivory, slaves, and arms on the new Maji frontier", in Donald L. Donham and Wendy James (editors) ''The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia'' (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 201.〕 Richard Pankhurst records that its governor, Dejazmach Taye, amazed by the growing trade at Gambela to the west of him, during the 1920s attempted to develop exports of coffee, rubber, hides and ivory through the port town.〔Richard Pankhurst, ''Economic History of Ethiopia'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 451〕 Prior to the Italian occupation, the British had a consulate in Maji. The town was occupied by the Italians 18 March 1937, and liberated from them by May 1941.〔 During this period, the occupiers built roads so that vehicles could be driven to Maji and a Catholic Mission operated there which ran at least one school. An American Mission was established in 1948 near Maji, and provided education and medical care until it was closed in 1977.〔Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. ("An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology" ) (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington), p. 8〕 When the Maji Zone was created in the mid-1990s, Maji became its administrative center. 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「Maji, Ethiopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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