Lieka or Liekà was a former settlement in 19th and early 20th century

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 ...

, a major market town in the Oromo region southwest of

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. It was located on the

Bilo Bilo, formerly spelled Billo and Billò, is a town in central Ethiopia. It is located in the East Welega Zone of the Oromia at an elevation of above sea level. Bilo is the administrative center of Wama Bonaya woreda and was sometimes also know ...

plain, southwest of Sokota and retained a hereditary Oromo ruler upon its integration into the empire of

Menelek II , spoken = ; ''djānhoi'', lit. ''"O steemedroyal"'' , alternative = ; ''getochu'', lit. ''"Our master"'' (pl.) Menelik II ( gez, ዳግማዊ ምኒልክ ; horse name Abba Dagnew (Amharic: አባ ዳኘው ''abba daññäw''); 17 A ...

.Bulatovich, Alexander.
From Entotto to the River Baro
''. 1897. Translated by Richard Seltzer as ''Ethiopia through Russian Eyes''. Samizdat, 1993. Accessed 18 Mar 2014. It has since lost its importance as a regional market to nearby

Nekemte Nekemte, also spelled as Neqemte (, Amharic: ነቀምት), is a market town and separate woreda in western Ethiopia. Located in the East Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, Nekemte has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,088 meter ...

. The village at the former site is now spelled Leka.

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