Dekemhare is a town in Eritrea, lying south east of Asmara. Developed as an industrial center, it became a large scale industrial and transportation city, known for its vineyards but was partly destroyed in the Eritrean War of Independence.some of the villages around Dekemhare city are, Hadamu (ሃዳሙ), Amhur (ኣምሁር), Awlietseru(ኣውሊዕ ጸሩ) Gurae(ጉራዕ), Tukul (ቱኹል), Qeyhkor, (ቀይሕኮር), Afelba, (ኣፈልባ), Metsalu(መጻሉ)

The Eritrean War of Independence was a war for independence which Eritrean independence fighters waged against successive Ethiopian governments from 1 September 1961 to 24 May 1991.