Menelik I

Menelik I
ምኒልክ
Detail from a larger painting in the church at Axum
Emperor of Ethiopia (traditional)
Reign982–957 B.C. (E.C.)[1]
975–950 B.C. (G.C.)[nb 1] (according to Tafari Makannon's King List)[2]
954–930 B.C. (Alternate dates from E. A. Wallis Budge)[3]
PredecessorMakeda
SuccessorHanyon or Tomai (depending on the king list)
Bornc.1000 B.C.
DynastyHouse of Solomon
FatherKing Solomon
MotherQueen of Sheba

Menelik I (Ge'ez: ምኒልክ, Mənilək) was the legendary first Emperor of Ethiopia. According to Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b C. F. Rey, In the Country of the Blue Nile (1927), Camelot Press, London, pg. 263
  2. ^ C. F. Rey, In the Country of the Blue Nile (1927), Camelot Press, London, pg. 266
  3. ^ Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 1). London: Methuen & Co. p. 229.
  4. ^ Marrassini, Paolo. 2007. "Kəbrä Nägäśt." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: He-N: Vol. 3, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 364-368. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  5. ^ Fiaccadori, Gianfranco. 2007. "Mənilək I." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: He-N: Vol. 3, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 921-922. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.


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