Itang
Sign in to saveItang (also spelled Etang; Ethiopic: ኢታንግ) is a town in the Gambela Region in western Ethiopia. Within Gambela, Itang belongs to Itang woreda which forms a special woreda. Located on the Baro River (also known as the Openo River or the Upeno River).
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- Locality
- Itang
- Region
- ጋምቤላ ሕዝቦች ክልል Gambela جامبلا
- Country
- ኢትዮጵያ
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Located in
- Itang
- Elevation
- 480
- Capital of
- Itang
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Itang (also spelled Etang; Ethiopic: ኢታንግ) is a town in the Gambela Region in western Ethiopia. Within Gambela, Itang belongs to Itang woreda which forms a special woreda. Located on the Baro River (also known as the Openo River or the Upeno River).
== History == The town's importance can be traced to Article IV of the treaty signed by Emperor Menelik and the British minister, Harrington, in May 1902, which defined the boundary between Ethiopia and Sudan and designated the Itang area as a British trading enclave. However, Itang was too far from the Ethiopian Plateau, and after the Ethiopian government authorized the transfer on 8 October 1904, the concession was moved upstream to Gambela.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Itang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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