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Its northern suburb of Jiren was the capital of a large Oromo kingdom until the late Nineteenth Century . Originally named ''Hirmata'', the city owed its importance in the 19th century to being located on the caravan route between Shewa and the Kingdom Of Kaffa , as well as being only six miles from the palace of the king of Jimma . Some buildings survive from this period, including the Palace Of Abba Jiffar . The present town was developed on the Awetu River by Italian Colonial ists in the 1930s . At that time, with the goal of weakening the native Ethiopian Church , the Italians intended to make Jimma an important center of Islam ic learning, and founded an academy to teach '' Fiqh ''. 2 The city is home to a Museum , Jimma University , several Market s and an Airport . Days before the end of the Ethiopian Civil War in May 1991 , Jimma was captured by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front . REFERENCES # Herbert S. Lewis, ''A Galla Monarchy: Jimma Abba Jifar, Ethiopia, 1830-1932'' (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965), p. 56. # J. Spencer Trimingham, ''Islam in Ethiopia'' (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 137. |
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