Enticho

Enticho is a town in northern Ethiopia located in the Central Zone of the Tigray Region. It is the administrative center of woreda Ahferom.

History

19th Century

Enticho is the location where on 1 July 1889 that Fitawrari Dabbab Araya met Dejazmach Embaye. Dabbab was taken prisoner by Ras Alula Engida's followers two weeks later.

20th Century

After the Italian conquest, a telegraph office was opened in the town on 22 April 1936, and a post office on 1 July. Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in the town in 1968. More recently, Enticho was the site where the Ethiopian People's [Revolutionary Democratic Front] defeated armed units of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party on 23 March 1978, and pursued them back to the EPRP's stronghold on Mount Asimba.

Demographics

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Based on figures from the Central [Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)|Central Statistical Agency], in 2005 Enticho has an estimated total population of 90,048 of whom 41,415 are men and 48,633 are women. The 1994 census reported it had a total population of 5,198 of whom 2,351 were men and 2,847 women.