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Tselemti
ጸለምቲ (Tigrinya)
File:Serako - Tselemti - Ethiopia.jpg
Location of Tselemti
Country Ethiopia
Regionnorthern Ethiopia
ZoneMi'irabawi Zone Mi'irabawi Western)]]
Administrative centerMai Tsebri
Area
 • Total3,858.66 km2 (1,489.84 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)
 • Total1,278,980

Tselemti (Tigrinya: ጸለምቲ, lit.'blackish') is an Ethiopian District, or woreda, in the northern Ethiopia of Ethiopia.[1] Part of the Semien Mi'irabawi (North Western) Zone, Tselemti is bordered on the south by the Amhara Region, on the west by the [wolkayt wereda]], on the north by Asigede Tsimbela, on the northeast by Medebay Zana, and on the east by the Maekelay (Central Area) Zone. The Tekezé defines the boundary between Tselemti and tigray ; other rivers in this woreda include the Abteba ,firafira,serenta and ensiya, a tributaries of the Tekezé river. The administrative center of this woreda is Mai Tsebri; other towns in Tselemti include [[Dima, sekota,embamadre,mekabir ambessa,enkoyliham,mayteklit etc.

  1. ^ C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954), p. 243. The earliest surviving mention of this area is in the Futuh al-Habasha, written shortly after 1559. (Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst [Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003], p. 84). Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton. The Historical Geography of Ethiopia: From the First Century Ad to 1704. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.