Tiya
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UNESCO world heritage 
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| Steles in Tiya |
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 Ethiopia
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| Type: | Culture |
| Criteria : | (i) (iv) |
| Reference No .: | 12 |
| UNESCO region : | Africa |
| History of enrollment | |
| Enrollment: | 1980 ( session 4 ) |
Tiya is a village in central Ethiopia , south of Addis Ababa near Melka Awash and the Hare Shetan crater lake. It is located in the area of the Soddo - Gurage in the Woreda Sodo in the Gurage zone of the region of the southern nations, nationalities and peoples .
The most important of the 160 archaeological sites discovered so far in the Soddo area is located near Tiya. The site consists of 36 individual monuments, 32 of which are stone steles covered with symbols of an ancient Ethiopian culture. Since 1980 she is part of the UNESCO - World Heritage Site .
In 2005, according to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia, Tiya had 3,363 inhabitants. In the 1994 census, 1,856 residents were counted, of which 59.11% were Oromo , 32.76% Soddo-Gurage and 4.69% Amharen . 41.81% spoke Soddo as their mother tongue, 36.1% Oromo and 20.04% Amharic .
Individual evidence
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Tiya. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Central Statistical Agency : 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- ↑ CSA: The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Volume I: Part I. Statistical Report on Population Size and Characteristics ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 87.4 MB), (pp. 150, 192)
Web links
Cultural heritage: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela (1978) | Fasil Ghebbi in the Gondar region (1979) | Lower Awash Valley (1980) | Tiya (1980) | Aksum (1980) | Lower Omo Valley (1980) | Harar Jugol (2006) | Cultural landscape of the Konso (2011)
Natural heritage: Simien National Park (1978)
Coordinates: 8 ° 26 ' N , 38 ° 37' E