Dejen

History

Dejen is named after the traditional district it lies in, Dejen, which is best known as where Admas Mogasa, the widow of Emperor Menas, raised the future Emperor Susenyos and instructed him in "the doctrine of the holy books." P. H. G. Powell-Cotton, who camped there in March 1900, described Dejen as "a little village of a dozen huts or so perched on the steep side of the valley of the Mogga, and only remarkable as being the first village on the Gojam side" of the Abay. The town was subjected to long-distance shelling on 16 April 1991, after its capture by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, and six people were killed.

Most-observed species

• Red-eyed Dove

  Streptopelia semitorquata (Rüppell, 1837) · Aves
  2
• Hemprich's Hornbill

  Lophoceros hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1833) · Aves
  2
• African woollyneck

  Ciconia microscelis G.R.Gray, 1848 · Aves
  1
• klipspringer

  Oreotragus oreotragus (Zimmermann, 1783) · Mammalia
  1
• African Fish-Eagle

  Haliaeetus vocifer (Daudin, 1800) · Aves
  1
• Common Bulbul

  Pycnonotus barbatus (Desfontaines, 1789) · Aves
  1
• Mocking Cliff-Chat

  Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836) · Aves
  1
• Red-billed Firefinch

  Lagonosticta senegala (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  1