Adi-Ada/: ትግርኛ/ዓዲ ዓዳ is a village of the former historical province of

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, which is located 7 km southeast to the city of

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in present Southern Region of the state of

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. The village has an age of at least 500 years, which is composed of four families called Enda Tesfit, Enda Nayzgi, Enda Oqubay and Enda Andehans who are founding fathers of the village Adi-Ada which has more than 300 households and an estimated population of 1,500 people., ReliefWeb, Adi-Ada a village in Mendefera sub zone, Aprile24,2012 Villages around Adi-Ada are Debezana, Mado, Adi-Bardi, Mefalso, Egrimekel, Adewehaza, Zban ona, Kudofelasi and Deranto which all villages belongs to Tekela (ተኸላ).The village is one of the major agricultural and animal products provider of

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. Agricultural irrigation systems were begun during the

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colonization period and that's why many farming places of the village acquired Italian names.Hanevic Kurt, Emnetu Eritrea, List of Eritrean Villages, Seraye-Tekela p18EriTv, 26June-2013, Agricultural news of AdiAda The people of Adi-Ada are

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who are followers of the

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, Saint Micheal (እንዳ ሚካኤል) church was there hundreds years before. Now the village built additional Trinity (እንዳ ስላሴ) church on a small hill called Kurba wedi gede (ኩሩባ ወዲ ገደ) and while digging the ground at the hill they found an old traditional instruments such as water

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and is now in a museum in

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for extra studies as it mentioned by the national Media

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.Ancient pots found in Adi-Ada, EriTv news April 25, 2019

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