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Dire Dawa

Dire Dawa (Somali: Diridhaba, meaning "where (the Somali ancestor) Dir hit his spear into the ground" or "The true Dir", Amharic: ????????????, Harari: ????????????, lit. "Plain of Medicine"; Oromo: Dirree Dhawaa, lit. 'Place of Remedy'; Arabic: ???????? ????????) is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Somali Region and Oromo border and one of two chartered cities in Ethiopia (the other being Addis Ababa, the capital). Dire Dawa alongside present-day Sitti Zone were a part of the Dire Dawa autonomous region of the Somali Region stipulated in the 1987 Ethiopian Constitution until 1993 when it was split by the federal government into a separately administered chartered city. It is divided administratively into two woredas, the city proper and the non-urban woredas. Dire Dawa lies in the eastern part of the nation, on the Dechatu River, at the foot of a ring...

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