Selale

Selale (Amharic: ሰላሌ), also known as Selalle or Selalesh, was a province of the Ethiopian Empire located in southern Bulga, south of Sarmat^[1] and neighboring Grarya. It later became a awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa.^[2] The region was home to the important Debre Libanos monastery built by Saint Tekle Haymanot who was born in Zorare, a district in Selale which lied on the eastern edge of Shewa, to a Christian Amhara family.^[3] An Oromo subgroup inhabiting the North Shewa Zone took their name from the original region.^[4] They have a population of approximately 2 million.^[5] The capital of the sub-province in the 20th century was Fiche.^[6]