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Tewodros II remarried, this time to the daughter of his imprisoned enemy Dejazmach Wube. The new Empress, Tiruwork Wube was a proud and haughty woman, very aware of her illustrious Solomonic ancestry. She is said to have intended on the religious life and becoming a nun, especially after the fall of her father and his imprisonment along with ...
The new Marxist government began nationalizing property (including land) owned by the church. Tewophilos was arrested in 1976 by the Marxist Derg military junta, and secretly executed in 1979. The government ordered the church to elect a new Patriarch, and Takla Haymanot was enthroned.
Tewodros I (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ), throne name Walda Anbasa (Ge'ez: ወልደ ዐንበሳ; died 2 July 1414) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1413 to 1414, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Dawit I by Queen Seyon Mangasha.
One text reports Gebre Menfes Kidus lived 562 years, 300 of them in Egypt, while another attributes him a life of 362 years. [4] He was born in Nehisa, Egypt to noble parents, named Simon and Eklesia.
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Kenfu Hailu [note 1] (born ca. 1800 – 1839 in Fenja) was one of the figures of the Zemene Mesafint era. He was the older half brother of Emperor Tewodros II, who came of age at his court.
Alemayehu's life was the basis of the 2001 play Abyssinia that toured England in a production by Tiata Fahodzi.Written by Adewale Ajadi and directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr., it played in The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, Southwark Playhouse and other regional theatres.
It is argued [who?] that sufficient evidence shows that Amda Seyon was the son of Wedem Arad. [14] However, when a deputation of monks led by Basalota Mika’el accused him of incest for marrying Emperor Wedem Arad's concubine Jan Mogassa and threatened to excommunicate him, he claimed to be the biological son of the Emperor's brother Qedma Asgad; this explanation may have had its origins in ...