Hayq, Ethiopia

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subdivision_name =‎ Ethiopia
subdivision_name1 = Amhara Region
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subdivision_name2 = Debub Wollo Zone
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Hayq (or Haik) is a town in northern Ethiopia. The town is named after Lake Hayq, which lies two kilometers east of the town and is the home of Istifanos Monastery, an important landmark in Ethiopian Church history. Located 28 kilometers north of Dessie in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of coord|11|18|N|39|41|E and an elevation of 2030 meters above sea level.

Telephone service reached the town of Hayq at some point between 1954 and 1967. [http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/h/ORTHARS.pdf "Local History in Ethiopia"] (pdf), The Nordic Africa Institute website (last accessed 25 March 2008)] 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.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Hayq has an estimated total population of 14,319 of whom 7,226 were males and 7,093 were females. [ [http://www.csa.gov.et/text_files/2005_national_statistics.htm CSA 2005 National Statistics] , Table B.4] 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.

In the 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 Sweden-supported Wello Environment Education Project, which ran a secondary school. Hayq was formerly the capital of the Amba Sel woreda or district in Wollo.

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