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The
city
name
Adama
may
have
been
derived
from
the
Oromo
word
adaamii,
which
means
a
cactus
or
a
cactus-like
tree.[9]
More
specifically,
adaamii
means
Euphorbia
candelabrum,[10]
a
tree
of
the
spurge
family,
while
hadaamii
would
mean
Indian
fig.[11]
Following
World
War
II,
Emperor
Haile
Selassie
renamed
the
town
after
Biblical
Nazareth,
and
this
name
was
used
for
the
remainder
of
the
twentieth
century.[7]
In
2000,
the
city
officially
reverted
to
its
original
Oromo
name,
Adama,[7][12]
though
Nazareth
is
still
widely
used.[13]
In
2000,
the
government
moved
the
regional
capital
of
Oromia
from
Addis
Ababa
to
Adama,[7]
sparking
considerable
controversy.
Critics
of
the
move
believed
that
the
Ethiopian
government
wished
to
deemphasize
Addis
Ababa's
location
within
Oromia.[14][15]
On
the
other
hand,
the
government
maintained
that
Addis
Ababa
"has
been
found
inconvenient
from
the
point
of
view
of
developing
the
language,
culture
and
history
of
the
Oromo
people"