Gijet is a town in southern Tigray,

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 ...

. This town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2070 to 2100 meters above sea level. Gijet is the largest settlement in the

Saharti Samre Saharti Samre () is one of the Districts of Ethiopia, or ''woredas'', in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Misraqawi (Southeastern) Zone, Samre is bordered on the south by the Amhara Region, on the west and north by the Mehakelegn ...

district. During the

Imperial era The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

, Gijet was the center of the Saharti woreda. Since 2020, it is again the centre of the new Saharti woreda.

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