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Berehet

Field	Value
name	Berehet
native_name	በረኸት
image_flag	Flag of the Amhara Region.svg
type	Woreda
map_caption	Berehet Woreda
subdivision_type	Zone
subdivision_name	Semien Shewa
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Amhara Region
population_as_of	2012 est.
population_total	38,089 https://web.archive.org/web/20120805184429/http://www.geohive.com/cntry/ethiopia.aspx
population_density_km2	auto
population_footnotes
area_total_km2	791.44
area_footnotes
seat_type	Largest city

Berehet (Amharic: በረኸት) is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Shewa Zone, Berehet is bordered on the south by the Germama River which separates it from Menjarna Shenkora, on the west by Hagere Mariamna Kesem, on the north by Asagirt, and on the east by the Afar Region. The major town in Berehet is Metiteh Bila.

Berehet is the location of the Battle of Bereket, fought 19 November 1855. In this battle, the last Shewan nobles to resist Emperor Tewodros II were defeated by his general Ras Ingida, and seeing that further defiance was futile they surrendered the young heir to the Shewan throne, Menelik. Also during 1933 there was a battle between patriots and Italian army near to metiteh bila, finally they were bombed. That area was prohibited from farming activity for a long time and finally memorial built in 2013.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 34,810, an increase of 13.07% over the 1994 census, of whom 17,669 are men and 17,141 women; 3,978 or 11.43% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 791.44 square kilometers, Berehet has a population density of 43.98, which is less than the Zone average of 115.3 persons per square kilometer. A total of 7,658 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.55 persons to a household, and 7,221 housing units. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 79.62% reporting that as their religion, while 20.19% of the population said they were Muslim.

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 30,786 in 5,741 households, of whom 15,789 were men and 14,997 were women; 1,328 or 4.31% of its population were urban dwellers. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Berehet were the Amhara (80.26%), and the Argobba (19.47%); all other ethnic groups made up 0.27% of the population. Amharic was spoken as a first language by 99.75%. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 79.21% reporting that as their religion, while 20.75% were Muslim.

Notes

References

[http://www.geohive.com/cntry/ethiopia.aspx Geohive: Ethiopia] {{webarchive. link. (2012-08-05)
Sven Rubenson, ''King of Kings: Tewodros of Ethiopia'' (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1966), p. 53
link. (November 14, 2010 , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4.)
[http://www.csa.gov.et/surveys/Population%20and%20Housing%20Census%201994/survey0/data/docs%5Creport%5CStatistical_Report%5Ck03%5Ck03_partI.pdf ''1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Amhara Region'', Vol. 1, part 1] {{webarchive. link. (November 15, 2010 , Tables 2.1, 2.7, 2.10, 2.13, 2.17, Annex II.2 (accessed 9 April 2009))

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