Sodo
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:''This article is about the Ethiopian town. For the language, see [[Soddo language]]. For the neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, see [[Sodo, Seattle, Washington]].''
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'''Sodo''' or '''Wolaita Sodo''' is a town in south-central [[Ethiopia]]. Located the [[Wolaita Zone]]<!--Why does this redirect to [[Semien Omo Zone]]?--> of the [[Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region]], Sodo has a latitude and longitude of {{coor dm |6|54|N|37|45|E}} with an elevation between 1600 and 2100 meters above sea level. It is the largest settlement in the [[woreda]] of [[Sodo Zuria]].
Based on figures from the [[Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)|Central Statistical Agency]] in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 65,737 of whom 34,069 were males and 31,668 were females.<ref>[http://www.statsethiopia.org/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics], Table B.3</ref> The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 36,287 of whom 18,863 were males and 17,424 were females.
Sodo is served by an [[Sodo Airport|airport]] ([[ICAO]] code HASD, [[IATA]] SXU). It is also the seat of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Apostolic Vicariate]] of Sodo-Hosaena.
== History ==
In the early 1930s, Sodo was the only locality in Welamo district deserving to be called a town. It had a Saturday market, a telephone line to the capital and a weekly mail courier. Italian ground troops captured Sodo on [[27 January]] [[1937]]; it was there that two Italian generals with their divisions -- Liberati with his [[Italian 25 Division|25th Division]], and Bacarri with his [[Italian 101 Division|101st Division]] -- surrendered on 22 May 1941, after a minimum of resistance. The British also captured the remnants of the [[Italian 21 Division|21st Division]], who had escaped around the north end of [[Lake Abijatta]]. The loot included more than 4,000 officers and men, 6 medium tanks, 4 light tanks, 100 machine guns, ammunition and supplies.<ref name=NAI-web>[http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/A/ORTSOB.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 16 November 2007)</ref>
By [[1958]] Sodo was one of 27 places in Ethiopia ranked as First Class Township. A branch of the [[Commercial Bank of Ethiopia]] was established between 1965-68.<ref name=NAI-web/> The administrator of Sodo woreda and one-time student activist, Melaku Gebre Egziahber, was arrested in [[1975]] for encouraging peasants and the urban poor to rise up against "exploiters" in the town.<ref>Marina and David Ottaway, ''Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution'' (New York: Africana Publishing, 1978), p. 125</ref> In [[1984]], a refugee camp was established in the town for the victims of [[1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia|that year's famine]].<ref name=NAI-web/>
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