{{short description|Former sub-province of north-central Ethiopia}} '''Selale''' ({{Langx|am|ሰላሌ}}, {{Langx|om|Salaalee}}), was a province of the Ethiopian Empire located south of Gojjams Abay River, west of Merhabete's Wenchit River, and South of Weleka district Jemma River, north of Entoto Mountains, and east of the Muger River<ref>Huntingford, George Wynn (1989). The Historical Geography of Ethiopia: From the First Century AD to 1704. British Academy</ref> and centered around Grarya. It later became an awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa.<ref name=s>{{cite web|title=NIRAS in Ethiopia, October 2011|url=http://www.niras.com/business-areas/~/media/files/niras-com/development-consulting/nic-ethiopia-october-2011.ashx|accessdate=10 April 2014|archive-date=18 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118223312/http://www.niras.com/business-areas/~/media/files/niras-com/development-consulting/nic-ethiopia-october-2011.ashx|url-status=dead}}</ref> The region was home to the important Debre Libanos monastery built by Saint Tekle Haymanot who was born in Zorare, a district in Selale which lied on the eastern edge of Shewa, to a Christian family.<ref>G.W.B. Huntingford, ''The Historical Geography of Ethiopia'' (London: The British Academy, 1989), p. 69</ref> An Oromo subgroup inhabiting the North Shewa Zone took their name from the original region.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fg1zCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|title=The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: 1300-1700|last=Hassen|first=Mohammed|date=2015|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781847011176|pages=128|language=en}}</ref> They have a population of approximately 2 million.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54gyRnhIugkC&q=salale+oromo&pg=PA205|title=Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World|last=Phillips|first=David J.|date=2001|publisher=William Carey Library|isbn=9780878083527|pages=205|language=en}}</ref> The capital of the sub-province in the 20th century was Fiche.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local history of Ethiopia : Fia - Fyanja |url=https://nai.uu.se/download/18.39fca04516faedec8b248ddd/1580829011314/ORTFI05.pdf |publisher=Nordic Africa Institute |access-date=8 June 2024}}</ref>
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