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Selekleka

Field	Value
native_name	ሰለኽለኻ
pushpin_map	Ethiopia
pushpin_map_caption	Location within Ethiopia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ethiopia
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Tigray
subdivision_type2	Zone
subdivision_name2	Semien Mi'irabawi (North Western)
leader_title1
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area_total_km2
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2005
population_total	7,391
utc_offset	+3
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elevation_m	1972
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native_name_lang	ti
timezone1	East Africa Time

Selekleka (; also transliterated as Selekhlekha, Selekhlekha or Selekh Lekha) is a town in North Western Zone, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Mi'irabawi (North Western) Zone of the Tigray Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2107 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Medebay Zana woreda.

This town serves as the primary market center for much of the surrounding area. Sorghum and finger millet are brought from the lowland portions of La'ilay and Tahtay Adiyabo for sale.

History

Selekh Lekha is mentioned in the Royal Chronicle as where Ras Mikael Sehul and his puppet Emperor Tekle Haymanot II spent one night in June 1770 during their campaign through Tigray. The chronicler describes the place as "a holy land where there is no breath of scandal."

Two British hunters passed through Selekh Lekha and its neighbor Beles in January 1923, later describing the settlements in unflattering and dismissive words. In February 1936, during the opening moves of the Second Italian-Abyssinian War, the Blackshirt "21st April" Division, with the "Gavininana" and "Gran Sasso" Divisions clashed with the soldiers of Ras Imru Haile Selassie near Selekh Lekha, as part of the Second Battle of Tembien.

During the Italian occupation, a leprosarium was built in Selekh Lekha; this was abandoned by its Italian staff on 30 March 1941, and later pillaged and destroyed by the locals.

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Selekh Lekha has an estimated total population of 7,391, of whom 3,529 are men and 3,862 are women. The 1994 census reported it had a total population of 4252 of whom 1,879 were males and 2,373 were females.

Notes

References

[http://www.dppc.gov.et/Livelihoods/Tigray/Downloadable/Tigray%20Livelihood%20Zone%20Reports/MRB.pdf "Livelihood Profile: Tigray Region, Ethiopia: Mereb Basin Livelihood Zone, February 2007"], Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency of Ethiopia website (accessed 14 October)
[[H. Weld Blundell]], ''The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840'' (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 220
[http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/s/ORTSEK.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] {{webarchive. link. (28 May 2011 The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 6 December 2007))
The town was later the center of heavy fighting between the 604th Army Corps of the [[Derg]]'s [[Third Revolutionary Army]] and troops of the [[Tigrayan People's Liberation Front]] during the [[Battle of Shire (1989). Battle of Shire]], which ended on 19 February 1989 with a crushing defeat for the Derg.Gebru Tareke, ''The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa'' (New Haven: Yale University, 2009), pp. 266 - 285
[http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics], Table B.4

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