Delgi

Delgi is a town in western Ethiopia. Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Tana in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 12°12′N 37°03′E / 12.2°N 37.05°E / 12.2; 37.05Coordinates: 12°12′N 37°03′E / 12.2°N 37.05°E / 12.2; 37.05 and an elevation of 1785 meters above sea level. It is one of four towns in Alefa woreda.

A weekly ferry connects Delgi with Gorgora and Bahir Dar.

The Scots explorer James Bruce paused for an hour at the church of Delgi Mariam 30 Oct 1770, and in his memoirs recalled the village of Delgi "adjoining to it [the church], is but small". Nearby is the hill of Goy Mariam, where at the time "the queen-mother has a house"; Bruce further recorded, "All the habitations in this country were burnt by Ras Michael in his return to Gondar after the battle of Fagitta.^[1] Arthur J. Hayes passed through Delgi twice in 1904 during his circumambulation of Lake Tana, spending three days there in January and three more the next month.^[2]

Demographics

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 8,725 of whom 4,120 are men and 4,605 are women.^[3] The 1994 census reported Dengel Ber had a total population of 5,054 of whom 2,168 were men and 2,886 were women.

Notes

1. ^ Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, (London, 1790), vol. 5 p. 180
2. ^ Hayes, The Source of the Blue Nile (London, 1905), pp. 73, 79, 169-174
3. ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Table B.4