Dek Island

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Dek Island (Dek Deset in Amharic) is the biggest island (approximately 16 square kilometers in size) on Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It is administratively included in the Achefer woreda of the Mirab Gojjam Zone. The total population is approximately 17,000.

It is home to several monasteries, the best known being Narga Selassie. It is accessible by the ferry that runs from Bahir Dar to Gorgora.[1] Hormuzd Rassam mentions visiting the island in February 1866, describing that at the time it contained four villages with a church attached to each one. Rassam also repeats the story told to him how Dejazmach Kassa (the later Emperor Tewodros II) captured Dek in a single assault.[2]

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  1. ^ As attested in a number of tour books, for example Philip Briggs, Guide to Ethiopia, third edition (Old Saybrook: Globe Pequot Press, 2003), pp. 194f
  2. ^ Hormuzd Rassam, Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore of Abyssinia (London, 1869), vol. 1 pp. 315f

Coordinates: 11°55′N 37°16′E / 11.917°N 37.267°E / 11.917; 37.267

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