Tum Airport (Tum)
Tum Airport is an airport in southwestern Ethiopia. It serves the villages of Tum and Maji, the administrative center of the Maji District. The airport was formerly served by Ethiopian Airlines.
Maji sits atop a ridge on the Boma Plateau, more than 3000 ft above the airport at Tum. The plateau runs west through southeast of the airport. The runway slopes uphill to the southeast.
* Transport in Ethiopia
* List of airports in Ethiopia
* Transport in Ethiopia
* List of airports in Ethiopia
Maji sits atop a ridge on the Boma Plateau, more than 3000 ft above the airport at Tum. The plateau runs west through southeast of the airport. The runway slopes uphill to the southeast.
* Transport in Ethiopia
* List of airports in Ethiopia
* Transport in Ethiopia
* List of airports in Ethiopia
Map - Tum Airport (Tum)
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Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out to the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithic period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic language family. In 980 BCE, the Kingdom of D'mt extended its realm over Eritrea and the northern region of Ethiopia, while the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilization in the region for 900 years. Christianity was embraced by the kingdom in 330, and Islam arrived by the first Hijra in 615. After the collapse of Aksum in 960, a variety of kingdoms, largely tribal confederations, existed in the land of Ethiopia. The Zagwe dynasty ruled the north-central parts until being overthrown by Yekuno Amlak in 1270, inaugurating the Ethiopian Empire and the Solomonic dynasty, claimed descent from the biblical Solomon and Queen of Sheba under their son Menelik I. By the 14th century, the empire grew in prestige through territorial expansion and fighting against adjacent territories; most notably, the Ethiopian–Adal War (1529–1543) contributed to fragmentation of the empire, which ultimately fell under a decentralization known as Zemene Mesafint in the mid-18th century. Emperor Tewodros II ended Zemene Mesafint at the beginning of his reign in 1855, marking the reunification and modernization of Ethiopia.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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ETB | Ethiopian birr | Br | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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AM | Amharic language |
EN | English language |
OM | Oromo language |
SO | Somali language |
TI | Tigrinya language |