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Biography of Yekuno Amlak
Name: Yekuno Amlak
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Nationality: Ethiopian
Gender: Male
Occupations: king
Yekuno Amlak
The Ethiopian king Yekuno Amlak (reigned ca. 1268-1283) restored the Solomonic dynasty to the throne of Ethiopia after it had been held by the Zagwe dynasty for about 300 years.Almost everything that has been written about Yekuno Amlak pertains to a single, central event in his life: his restoration of the Solomonic dynasty to the Ethiopian throne. The official royal chronicles were begun about this time, but until the next century these chronicles record little more than lists of names and tell us little about Yekuno Amlak's life. Much of what has been written about the restoration of the Solomonic dynasty was in fact written several centuries later and is largely apocryphal.According to traditions in manuscripts written after the 13th century, the Solomonic kings, whose ancestry was traced back to Solomon and Sheba, had been ousted by a northern dynasty known as the Zagwe about the 10th century. However, the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…almost 6 centuries, was growing, and Yekuno Amlak mounted some military campaigns against them. However, the main conflicts came much later.Yekuno Amlak was succeeded by Yagbea Sion, who ruled from about 1283 or 1285 to 1294; and his grandson, Amda Sion (reigned 1314-1344), who finally consolidated the empire and began a period of major expansion. Further Reading Since nothing has been written specifically on the life of Yekuno Amlak, students must rely on general histories for information. Good surveys include Estelle S. Pankhurst, Ethiopia: A Cultural History (1955); Edward Ullendorff, The Ethiopians (1960; 2d ed. 1965); and Richard K.P. Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, from Early Times to 1800 (1961). A rare but important traveler's account is the source of much of what modern historians have written on Yekuno: James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (5 vols., 1790); volume 1 contains a discussion of Ethiopian history based on what were then contemporary traditions.
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