 The Battle of Segale was fought on 27 October 1916 in this woreda.In this battle, the supporters of Emperor Iyasu V of Ethiopia were defeated, which secured the outcome of the palace coup the previous month, in which Zawditu had been proclaimed Empress.Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 120,930, an increase of 7.81% over the 1994 census, of whom 61,924 are men and 59,006 women; 1,219 or 1.01% are urban inhabitants.