| Lake Hayq | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | |
| Primary outflows | none |
| Basin countries | Ethiopia |
| Max. In Hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a River is the volume of Water transported by it in a certain amount of time A drainage basin is an extent of Land where Water from Rain or Snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a River, length | 6. 7 km |
| Max. width | 6 km |
| Surface area | 23 km² |
| Max. To help compare sizes of different geographic regions we list here Areas between 10 km² (1000 Hectares and 100 km² (10000 hectares depth | 88 m |
| Surface elevation | 2,030 m |
Lake Hayq or Lake Haik (Ge'ez ሐይቅ hāyḳ, Amh. "lake") is a freshwater lake of Ethiopia. Ge'ez (gez ግዕዝ) also called Ethiopic, is an Abugida script that was originally developed to write Ge'ez, a Semitic language Amharic (አማርኛ amarəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. A lake (from Latin lacus) is a Terrain feature (or Physical feature) a body of Liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page It is located north of Dessie, in the Debub Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region (or kilil). Dessie (also spelled Dese or Dessye) is a city and a Woreda in north-central Ethiopia. Debub Wollo (or "South Wollo" is one of 10 Zones in the Ethiopian Amhara Region. Amhara (አማራ is one of the nine ethnic divisions ( Kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. The town of Hayq is to the west of the lake. 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
Lake Hayq is 6. 7 km long and 6 km wide, with a surface area of 23 km²[1]. It has a maximum depth of 88 m and is at an elevation of 2,030 m.
History
According to a local legend, the lake was created to avenge a pregnant woman was wronged by a princess. God was greatly angered by this injustice, and in his wrath turned all of the land surrounding the woman (except the ground she was sitting on) into water forming a lake, destroying the princess along with her friends and family in the process. Where the pregnant woman was sitting became an island (now a peninsula) where Istifanos Monastery, founded in the middle of the 13th century by Iyasus Mo'a, is located. Istifanos Monastery (or St Stephen Monastery) is in Ethiopia, located in Lake Hayq. Iyasus Mo'a (Iyäsus Mo'a "Jesus has Conquered" c 1214 &ndash c
A former student of Iyasus Mo'a, Tekle Haymanot went on to found the monastery of Debra Asbos (renamed in the 15th century to Debre Libanos) in Shewa. Tekle Haymanot or Takla Haymanot ( Ge'ez ተክለ፡ ሃይማኖት takla hāymānōt, modern tekle hāymānōt, "Plant of Faith" See also Debre Libanos (Eritrea for another monastery of the same name Shewa ( Ge'ez ሽዋ šawā, modern šewā also spelled Shoa) is a historical region of Ethiopia [2] Tekle Haymanot was one of five bright young religious stodents who became the "five lights of Christianity" for the south of Ethiopia. Iyasus Mo'a also played a role in Yekuno Amlak's overthrow of the Zagwe dynasty, and helped restore the Solomonic dynasty. Emperor Yekuno Amlak (throne name Tasfa Iyasus) was {{IPA|nəgusä nägäst}} ( 10 August 1270 - 19 June 1285 The Zagwe dynasty ruled Ethiopia from the end of the Kingdom of Axum at an uncertain date in the 9th or 10th century to 1270, when Yekuno Amlak The Solomonic dynasty is the traditional royal house of Ethiopia, claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said Upon Yekuno Amlak's ascension to the throne, Istifanos Church became Istifanos Monastery. Istifanos Monastery (or St Stephen Monastery) is in Ethiopia, located in Lake Hayq. [3]
The church was established around the 8th century during the Axumite era and was the first one in what was then the Amhara province. The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum ( Ge'ez: አክሱም was an important trading The events surrounding its establishment, however, are not clear. Some legends suggest that there was an Aksumite palace in Ambasselle opposite the modern Istifanos monastery, located on the opposite side of the Lake Hayq. Imam Ahmad Gragn looted and burned this church in November, 1531. An imam (إمام plural ائمة A'immah, امام is an Islamic leader often the leader of a Mosque and/or community Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c 1506 - February 21, 1543) ("the Conqueror" was an Imam and General of Adal [4] The ruins of the church are still visible, and the legend states that the kings and princes who lived in that palace established the church.
The first known European to view the lake was Francisco Álvares, who passed near it 21 September 1520; he mentions the lake had hippopotamuses and catfish, and the land around it were planted in lemons, oranges and citrons. This is about the Portuguese missionary and explorer for the Argentine actor see Francisco Álvarez. Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. The hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius) from the Greek ἱπποπόταμος ( hippopotamos, ιππος hippos meaning "horse" Catfish ( order Siluriformes) are a very diverse group of bony Fish. Just prior to his accession in 1606, Susenyos I made his way to the lake Hayk area, where he expelled a group of Oromo who had infiltrated into the vicinity of Istifanos Monastery. Susenyos (also Sissinios, as in Greek, Ge'ez ሱስንዮስ sūsinyōs; throne name Malak Sagad III, Ge'ez መልአክ [5]
References
- ^ Baxter, R. M. ; Golobitsh, D. L. (1970). "A note on the limnology of Lake Hayk, Ethiopia". Limnology and Oceanography 15: 144–149.
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 110.
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, pp. 66-7.
- ^ This is how Taddesse Tamrat (Church and State, p. 36) interprets its date of 720 in the Futuh al-Habasha. Pankhurst's note on this passage proposes a different interpretation, that the existing church had been built in AH 720, which would have been the first year of the reign of Emperor Newaya Krestos, whom the author of the Futuh credits built the church. The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar ( Arabic: التقويم الهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī; Persian: تقویم هجری قمری Newaya Krestos (throne name Sayfa Ar`ed) was {{IPA|nəgusä nägäst}} (1344 - 1372 of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty (Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst [Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003], p. 265 and n. 614)
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf), The Nordic Africa Institute website (last accessed 25 March 2008)
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