Jima

Jimma is the largest city in western Ethiopia; as of 1994 it had a population of 88,867 people. It was the capital of Kaffa Province until the province was dissolved, and Jimma became part of the Oromia Region. Jimma is located at 7°40′N 36°50′E. According to Herbert S. Lewis, in the early 1960s it was "the greatest market in all of southwestern Ethiopia. On a good day in the dry season it attracts up to thirty thousand people."1

Its northern suburb of Jiren was the capital of a large Oromo kingdom until the late nineteenth century. Originally named Hirmata, the city owed its importance in the 19th century to being located on the caravan route between Shewa and the Kingdom of Kaffa, as well as being only six miles from the palace of the king of Jimma.

Some buildings survive from this period, including the Palace of Abba Jiffar. The present town was developed on the Awetu River by Italian colonialists in the 1930s. At that time, with the goal of weakening the native Ethiopian Church, the Italians intended to make Jimma an important center of Islamic learning, and founded an academy to teach fiqh.2 The city is home to a museum, several markets and an airport.

Days before the end of the Ethiopian Civil War in May 1991, Jimma was captured by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.

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