Ayikel (
Amharic: አይከል), also known as
Chilga is a town in western
Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Gondar Zone of the
Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of with an altitude of 2146 meters above sea level. The settlement is situated on the east–west road connecting
Gondar with
Metemma, and is the administrative center of
Chilga woreda.
Ayikel is mentioned, by its older name of "Chilga", by James Bruce, as a marketplace on the border between the Kingdom of Sennar and Ethiopia which was under their shared administration, and over which Emperor Susenyos in 1606 appointed the deposed king of Senaar, Abd al-Qadir as governor.[Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (London, 1790), vol. 3 pp. 298f]
Demographics
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 14,480 of whom 7,063 are men and 7,417 are women.
[ CSA 2005 National Statistics , Table B.4] The 1994 census reported Dengel Ber had a total population of 8,364 of whom 3,716 were men and 4,648 were women.
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