section_heading: Povijest
paragraph_text: Kad je njemački misionar Johann Ludwig Krapf prolazio kroz Veldiju u travnju 1842. na svom putu u unutrašnjost Etiopije, ona je tad bila sjedište dejazmača Farisa Aligasa i njegova brata Birua.<ref>Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, (London, 1843), str. 443