Gamu-Gofa

Gamu-Gofawas aprovincein the southern part ofEthiopia,named after two of theethnic groupsliving within its boundaries, theGamoand theGofa.First incorporated into Ethiopia by EmperorMenelik IIin the 1880s^{[citation needed]},its capital was first atChencha,then around 1965 the capital was moved toArba Minch.^[1]This province was bordered on the west and north byKaffa,on the north and east bySidamo,on the southeast byLake Chew Bahir,and on the south byKenyaandLake Turkana.

Gamu-Gofa Province came into existence as a result of Proclamation 1943/1, which created 12taklai ghizats from the existing 42 provinces of varying sizes.^[2]With the adoption of thenew constitution in 1995,Gamu-Gofa was reorganized into theSemien OmoandDebub Omo Zonesof theSouthern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Regionof Ethiopia.^{[citation needed]}

References

^"States of Ethiopia".Statoids.
^Bereket Habte Selassie,"Constitutional Development in Ethiopia",Journal of African Law,10(1966), p. 79. The number of former provinces comes from the map in Bahru Zewde,A History of Modern Ethiopia,second ed. (Oxford: James Currey, 2001), p. 86.

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