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Lij Iyasu was deposed before we got to know him. He really didn't had the opportunity to rule of his own accord. His reign was a short three years when he was 18-21 years old, ruled by a regent at that. Bahru Zewdu said that he was an enigmatic leader whoe rule we didn't get to see.
The archbishop of Ethiopia agreed and excommunicated Iyasu from the church and relived the nobles of their oath to the Prince. They then decided to make Zewditu empress and Ras Tafari her regent. Lij Iyasu actually fought the Usurpers at the Battle of Segele. He lead an armed resistance with the help of his father which was Shum of Wollo.
Lmao, we would never have accepted being part of Ethiopia. Our biggest hero is Ahmed Gurey who waged war on Ethiopia. Somalia were never gonna accept Ethiopian rule doesn’t matter if the emperor was muslim or not. Lij Iyasu was a good man though, he was a friend to Somalis and we influenced his thinking a lot.
Lij Iyasu was very rude, direct, and often came into conflict with the rest of the Shewan Aristocracy. He even cuckolded some of them by having affairs with their wives. The whole conversion to Islam was actually a conspiracy orchestrated by Jan Hoy and the British, as they were afraid of Ethiopia aligning with the Ottomans during the upcoming ...
Lij Iyasu was the regent of Abyssinia from 1913 to 1917. He was known for being adamant and impulsive, and wanted Abyssinia to enter the Weltkrieg on the side of the Germans. In the KRTL, Empress Zewditu overthrew Iyasu like in OTL, but she then joined the war in 1919.
But Lij Iyasu was flirting with Islam so the Ethiopian Orthodox Church replaced Iyasu with Zewditu in 1916. Zewditu became Queen of Kings and had favor with the Ethiopian church as she was a conservative monarch, however, regardless of her favor with the aristocracy, her gender was important and soon the Son of the old Ras Mekonnen, the ...
Fitawari Habte Giorgis was the main leader against Lij Iyasu and other Shewan nobles of Menelik’s court who didn’t like his Muslim ties and frequent trips to Somalia. And Haile Selassie didn’t really have a choice, Italians invaded and the British where the only ones that really backed him, and an Independent Ethiopia.
Menelik II announcement on his successor. In May 1908, Menilek assembled the principal chiefs and announced that he designated Lij Iyasu as his successor. As Iyasu was a younger boy, it was found necessary to appoint a regent for him so that Menelik nominated Ras Bitwoded5 Tesamma Nadew for the post of the guardianship of the young prince.
I've read alot of different stories on Iyasu and why he was excommunicated and deposed and I wonder what Ethiopia would have been like now had he…
But Lij Iyasu was flirting with Islam so the Ethiopian Orthodox Church replaced Iyasu with Zewditu in 1916. Zewditu became Queen of Kings and had favor with the Ethiopian church as she was a conservative monarch, however, regardless of her favor with the aristocracy, her gender was important and soon the Son of the old Ras Mekonnen, the ...