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Sheka (rural Locality)
Sheka may refer to: *Sheka Zone, in the ''Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region'' (SNNPR), Ethiopia **Sheka (kingdom), a former kingdom located in Ethiopia *Sheka (mythology), a dwarf in the Tatar mythology * Sheka (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Republic of Tatarstan The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...
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Sheka Zone
Sheka is a zone in the South West Region of Ethiopia. Sheka is bordered on the south by Bench Maji, on the west by the Gambela Region, on the north by the Oromia Region, and on the east by Keffa. The administrative center of Sheka is Masha. Sheka is the western part of former Keficho Shekicho Zone. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this Zone has a total population of 199,314, of whom 101,059 are men and 98,255 women; 34,227 or 17.17% are urban inhabitants. The seven largest ethnic groups reported in this Zone were the Shakacho (32.41%), the Amhara (22.17%), the Kafficho (20.16%), the Oromo (7.39%), the Bench (5.23%), the Sheko (4.24%), and the Majang (1.73%); all other ethnic groups made up 6.67% of the population. Shakacho is spoken as a first language by 33.44%, 26.98% speak Amharic, 20.15% Kafa, 6.54% speak Oromo, 5.24% Bench, and 4.35% Sheko; the remaining 3.3% spoke all other primary languages reported. 39.93% were Protestants, 39.39% ...
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Sheka (kingdom)
Sheka may refer to: *Sheka Zone, in the ''Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region'' (SNNPR), Ethiopia ** Sheka (kingdom), a former kingdom located in Ethiopia * Sheka (mythology), a dwarf in the Tatar mythology * Sheka (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Republic of Tatarstan The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the 13th-most populous country in the world and the 2nd-most populous in Africa after Nigeria. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. 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 langua ...
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Sheka (mythology)
Sheka (Tatar: ''Şekä'' or ''Шекә'', Turkish: ''Çike'') is a dwarf-like being in the Tatar mythology The Tatars ()Tatar
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is an umbrella term for different
, that lives in forests or derelict houses. In the legends he uses to appear in comic situation. Sheka in Polish mythology is field spirit that appears as a deformed dwarf with different coloured eyes and grass instead of hair. It appears either at noon or sunset and wear either all black or all white suits. According to local beliefs it leads wandering people in a field astray, give them diseases or ride them over with horses if they are found asleep. It enjoyed pulling the hair of peasants working in the midday. It also helped little children to get lost in the cornfields. If it catches a person, f ...
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Sheka (rural Locality)
Sheka may refer to: *Sheka Zone, in the ''Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region'' (SNNPR), Ethiopia **Sheka (kingdom), a former kingdom located in Ethiopia *Sheka (mythology), a dwarf in the Tatar mythology * Sheka (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Republic of Tatarstan The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...
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