Ejersa Goro

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Ejersa Goro is a town in eastern Ethiopia. Located outside the city of Harar in the Misraq Hararghe Zone of the Oromia Region, it has a latitude and longitude of coord|9|29|N|42|14|E|region:ET-OR_type:city(3104)|display=inline,title and an elevation of 2780 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Jarso woreda.

According to the Oromia Regional government website, this town has access to telephone and postal service, but lacks electricity. [ [http://oromiagov.org/Socio%20Economic%20Profile/East%20Hararge/East%20Hararghe.pdf "Socio-economic profile of the East Hararghe Zone"] Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 20 March 2008)] Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Ejersa Goro has an estimated total population of 3,104 of whom 1,529 were males and 1,575 were females. [ [http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics] , Table B.4]

Ejersa Goro is best known as the birthplace of Emperor Haile Selassie I, the tenth child of Ras Makonnen, then governor of Harar, and Woizero Yeshimebet Ali, in July 23 1892. The Emperor later erected a church, Kidane Mihret ("Eastern Bethlehem"), in the town to commemorate the event; when John Graham visited the town in 2001, although Ras Makonnen's house had been reduced to a "circle of rocks", Kidane Mihret was still standing and in use, although in worse repair than the mosque across town. [ [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/e/ORTEA.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 20 March 2008)]

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