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Hayq, Ethiopia

FieldValue
official_nameHayq
native_nameሐይቅ
image_skylineHayq, Ethiopia.jpg
image_captionHayq, Ethiopia
pushpin_mapEthiopia
pushpin_label_positionbottom
pushpin_mapsize300
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Ethiopia
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_type1Region
subdivision_nameEthiopia
subdivision_name1Amhara
subdivision_type2Zone
subdivision_name2Debub Wollo
population_as_of2005
population_total14,319 (est)
timezoneEAT
utc_offset+3
coordinates
elevation_m2030
area_codeNone

Hayq or Haik (Amharic: ሐይቅ) is a town in northern Ethiopia. It is named after Lake Hayq, which lies two kilometers east of the city and is the home of Istifanos Monastery, an important landmark in Ethiopian Church history. Located 28 kilometers north of Dessie in the Tehuledere woreda of the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, the town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2030 m above sea level.

Telephone service reached the town of Hayq at some point between 1954 and 1967. Notable landmarks include the churches Hayq Timhirt and Hayq Yohannis. Near the town is the church of Hayq Tekle Haymanot, founded according to tradition in 862 by Saint Kalae Salama during the reign of king Dil Na'od.

History

In the late 1930s, the Italian occupiers dedicated a graveyard near Hayq for the bodies of dead soldiers from the Blackshirt 3 Gennaio Division. During the mid-1980s, local educational services was augmented by the Swedish Wello Environment Education Project, which ran a secondary school. Hayq was formerly the capital of the Amba Sel woreda or district in Wollo.

Construction of a youth center, which includes amenities as a gymnasium, internet service room, assembly hall, a café, and office space, was underway in March 2009. Funds for construction of the building, budgeted at a million Birr, was provided by the woreda and Helvidius, a non-governmental organization.

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Hayq has an estimated total population of 14,319 of whom 7,226 are men and 7,093 are women. The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 8,247 of whom 3,802 were males and 4,445 were females. It is the largest town in Tehuledere woreda.

Notes

References

  1. [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/h/ORTHARS.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"]{{Dead link. (January 2020)
  2. [http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2009/Mar/02Mar09/81939.htm "Woreda constructing youth center"]{{Dead link. (January 2020)
  3. [http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics] {{webarchive. link. (July 31, 2008 , Table B.4)
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