Shire, Ethiopia

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Shire (ሽሬ), also known as Inda Selassie (እንዳ ሥላሴ, Tigrinya "Like the Trinity"), is a town in northern Ethiopia in the Mirabawi Zone of the Tigray region of Ethiopia west of Axum.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Shire has an estimated total population of 43,967 of whom 21,333 were males and 22,634 were females.[CSA 2005 National Statistics], Table B.4 According to the 1994 national census the town had a population of 25,269.

This town was formerly the capital of the Shire sub-region until the reorganization of the national sub-divisions after the adoption of the 1995 Ethiopian Constitution. Shire was a battlefield in both the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in the 1930s and during the Ethiopian Civil War, until the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front ejected the government forces in March 1988.

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