Dima is a town in northern

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. It is located in the Mirabawi Zone of the

Tigray Region The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob people, Irob and Kunama people. I ...

. Dima was the base for the nascent

Tigrayan People's Liberation Front The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; ), also known as the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist, paramilitary group, and the former ruling party of Ethiopia. It was classified as a terrorist organization ...

(TPLF), who arrived there late in 1975. The TPLF held its first 'Fighters Congress' in the town on 18 February 1976. It was attended by the entire membership of about 170 people, who elected a Central Committee. Based on figures from the

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency, also known as the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS; Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ስታቲስቲክስ አገልግሎት), is an Ethiopian government agency designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that ...

in 2005, Dima has an estimated total population of 902, of whom 498 are men and 404 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.4 The 1994 census reported it had a total population of 513, of whom 265 were men and 248 were women. It is one of two towns in

Tselemti Tselemti () is an Districts of Ethiopia, Ethiopian District, or ''woreda'', in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Mi'irabawi Zone, Semien Mi'irabawi (North Western) Zone, Tselemti is bordered on the south by the Amhara Region, on t ...

woreda Districts of Ethiopia, also called woredas (; ''woreda''), are the third level of the administrative divisions of Ethiopia – after ''List of zones of Ethiopia, zones'' and the ''Regions of Ethiopia, regional states''. These districts are f ...

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Populated places in the Tigray Region {{Tigray-geo-stub