Kogin Gibe

Kogin Gibe (kuma babban kogin Gibe)shine mafi girma a cikin kogin Omo a kudu maso yammacin Habasha kuma yana gudana gaba ɗaya kudu maso kudu.Matsalolin kogin Gibe

Dangane da yawancin kogunan Habasha,Gibe ba ya tafiya.

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Gibe ya tashi ne a wani tsayin sama da mita 2,000 a arewa da garin Bila,yamma da fadamar Chomen daga gundumar Gudeya Bila,wacce ke shiyyar Welega ta Gabas,a yankin Oromia .Sannan kogin yana gudana gaba daya zuwa kudu maso gabas zuwa mahadarsa da kogin Wabe.Rarrabansa sun hada da kogin Amara,da Alanga,da kogin Gilgel Gibe.Yankin kudu da magudanar ruwa na Gibe ya hada da yankin Gibe,wurin da wasu masarautu masu dimbin tarihi na kabilar Oromo da Sidama suke.Kogin Gibe ya kare ne a tsayin mita 1060, a mahadarsa da kogin Wabe,don haka ya zama kogin Omo.

Duk da cewa bankunanta da magudanan ruwa suna zama tun zamani tun zamanin da,an fara ambaton Gabe a cikin tarihin sarki Sarsa Dengel, wanda ya yi yakin neman zabe a arewacin yankin a shekara ta 1566.G.W.B. Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 143Bature na farko da aka rubuta don ganin Gibe shine ɗan mishan na Jesuit ɗan ƙasar Portugal António Fernandes,wanda ya ketare Gibe a shekara ta 1613 yayin da ya bar Ennarea ya shiga Janjero .Daga baya Fernandes ya bayyana Gibe a matsayin dauke da "ruwa fiye da kogin Nilu".Baltazar Téllez, The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1710 (LaVergue: Kessinger, 2010), p. 194Turawa ba za su sake ziyartar Gibe ba har sai karni na 19,don haka asusun Fernandes ya kasance mai iko kuma an fifita shi fiye da bayanan da aka samu daga matafiya.As Charles Johnston laments in his work, Travels in Southern Abyssinia through the Country of Adal to the Kingdom of Shoa (London, 1844), vol. 2 pp. 113-125

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