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  2. History of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Mentewab had herself crowned as co-ruler, becoming the first woman to be crowned in this manner in Ethiopian history. Ethiopian Prince investiture during the Zemene Mesafint. Empress Mentewab was crowned co-ruler upon the succession of her son (a first for a woman in Ethiopia) in 1730 and held unprecedented power over government during his reign.

  3. Ethiopian historiography - Wikipedia

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    The Ethiopian courtier (i.e. blatta) and historian Marse Hazan Walda Qirqos (1899–1978) was commissioned by the Selassie regime to compile a documentary history of the Italian occupation entitled A Short History of the Five Years of Hardship, composed concurrently with the submission of historical evidence to the United Nations War Crimes ...

  4. Daniachew Worku - Wikipedia

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    Daniachew Worku was born in a village south of Debre Sina, the eldest of five children.His family moved to the town of Debra Sina when he was four. His father, Worku Bezabih, went to France in 1914 and served in World War I before returning to Ethiopia and marrying his mother, Asegedech Habte-Wold.

  5. Ethiopia in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Wedem Arad sent an envoy to Spain in 1306 for the purpose of a religious alliance, [42] [43] Ethiopian monks participated in the Council of Constance in 1414–1418, [44] an Ethiopian diaspora is documented in Rome as early as the 15th century, [45] and there are several documented diplomatic missions from Ethiopia to Spain and Italy throughout ...

  6. Kebra Nagast - Wikipedia

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    Illustrations to the Kebra Nagast, 1920s. The Kebra Nagast, var. Kebra Negast (Ge'ez: ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäśt), or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century [1] national epic of Ethiopia, written in Geʽez by the nebure id Ishaq of Aksum.

  7. Battle of Adwa - Wikipedia

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    "The confrontation between Italy and Ethiopia at Adwa was a fundamental turning point in Ethiopian history," writes Henze. [60] On a similar note, the Ethiopian historian Bahru Zewde observed that "few events in the modern period have brought Ethiopia to the attention of the world as has the victory at Adwa". [61]

  8. Bahrey - Wikipedia

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    This short work is the source that Manuel de Almeida borrowed heavily from in writing his history of Ethiopia, and Hiob Ludolf derived much of his information on the Oromo from Baltazar Téllez's abridgment of Almeida's work. [3] Bahrey was also the author of Emperor Sarsa Dengel's chronicle, "The History of King Sarsa Dengel." [4]

  9. Samuel of Waldebba - Wikipedia

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    Samuel of Waldebba (Ge'ez ሳሙኤል ዘሀገረ ወልድባ) was a late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century Ethiopian saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He is considered the founder of Waldebba Monastery in northern Ethiopia and is one of Ethiopia's most prominent saints. [1] [2] [3] [4]