Menas of Ethiopia

Regnal name
	Admas Sagad I

Menas
ሜናስ
Menas ; ሜናስ
	Mural depicting Emperor Menas at Ura Kidane Mehret Church, Ethiopia
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign	1559–1563
Predecessor	Gelawdewos
Successor	Sarsa Dengel
Born	1535
Died	1563 (aged 27–28); Wag, Ethiopian Empire
Spouse	Adimas Moas
Issue	Sarsa Dengel; Lesana Kristos; Hawaryat; Tazkaro
Regnal name
Regnal name
	Admas Sagad I
House	House of Solomon
Religion	Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo

Menas (Ge'ez: ሜናስ, romanized: mēnās) or Minas, throne name Admas Sagad I (Ge’ez: አድማስ ሰገድ, died 1563), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1559 until his death in 1563, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a brother of Gelawdewos and the son of Emperor Dawit II.

^ ^a ^b ^c Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 2). London: Methuen & Co. p. 356.

[Budge-356-1] Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 2). London: Methuen & Co. p. 356.

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