Selale

{{short description|Former sub-province of north-central Ethiopia}}

Selale ({{Langx|am|ሰላሌ}}), also known as Salale or Selalesh, was a province of the Ethiopian Empire located in southern Bulga, south of SarmatHuntingford, George Wynn (1989). The Historical Geography of Ethiopia: From the First Century AD to 1704. British Academy and associated with Grarya. It later became a awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa.{{cite web|title=NIRAS in Ethiopia, October 2011|url=http://www.niras.com/business-areas/~/media/files/niras-com/development-consulting/nic-ethiopia-october-2011.ashx|accessdate=10 April 2014}} The region was home to the important Debre Libanos monastery built by Saint Tekle Haymanot. Also known as Selalle, an Oromo subgroup inhabiting the West Shewa Zone, north Shewa Zone and East Shewa Zone of Oromo Region, Ethiopia, are named after the original region.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fg1zCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|title=The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: 1300-1700|last=Hassen|first=Mohammed|date=2015|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781847011176|pages=128|language=en}} They have a population of approximately 2 million.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54gyRnhIugkC&q=salale+oromo&pg=PA205|title=Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World|last=Phillips|first=David J.|date=2001|publisher=William Carey Library|isbn=9780878083527|pages=205|language=en}} The famous saint Tekle Haymanot was born in Zorare, a district in Selale which lied on the eastern edge of Shewa, to a Christian Amhara family.G.W.B. Huntingford, The Historical Geography of Ethiopia (London: The British Academy, 1989), p. 69 The capital of the sub-province in the 20th century was Fiche.{{cite web |title=Local history of Ethiopia : Fia - Fyanja |url=https://nai.uu.se/download/18.39fca04516faedec8b248ddd/1580829011314/ORTFI05.pdf |publisher=Nordic Africa Institute |access-date=8 June 2024}}