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Mekane Selam
Mekane Selam (also known as Denbi Mekane Selam) is a town in central Ethiopia. Located in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1827 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Debre Sina woreda. The city is bordered by Eastern Gojjam in the west, Kelala and Wogid in the south, Leganbo (Akesta) in the east and Sayint (Agibar) in the north.
Mekane Selam hosts an airport ( IATA code MKS) with an unpaved runway, the former destination of scheduled flights by Ethiopian Airlines. The airport has not been operational for the last seven eight years. It is also reportedly the westernmost community accessible by car in Wollo. The nearby geology is characterized by an outcropping of basaltic rocks that have been reused in local buildings.〔("Local History in Ethiopia, (Mek - Mekwenta)" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 9 May 2008)〕
== History ==
The Swedish geologist Erik Nilsson visited Mekane Selam (which he called Agibar) during the first half of 1933, where he spent some time with the province's governor, Dejazmach Workneh.〔("Local History in Ethiopia, (Af Assa - Adjura)" ) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 16 April 2009)〕
Mekane Selam was the site where 8,000 Italian soldiers surrendered in May, 1941. These were the remnants of 51 battalions which had managed to escape from Gojjam ahead of Gideon Force, and were trapped in the town when Wilfred Thesiger completed a 50-mile march in 24 hours with his men and seized the ridge connecting two hills the Italians had intended to use for their retreat.〔W. E. D. Allen, ("Ethiopian Highlands", ''Geographical Journal'' ), 101 (1943), p. 5〕
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