RasKassa Hailu KS, GCVO, GBE, (Amharic: ካሣ ኀይሉ ዳርጌ; 7 August 1881 – 16 November 1956) was a Shewan Amhara nobleman, the son of Dejazmach Haile Wolde Kiros of Lasta, the ruling heir of Lasta's throne and younger brother of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis II, and Tisseme Darge, the daughter of Ras Darge Sahle Selassie, brother of Menelik II's father.
John Spencer, who advised Ras Kassa during the writing of the 1955 Constitution of Ethiopia, described him as "surely the most conservative of all the rases in constant attendance at the court." Spencer continued his description of the aristocrat by noting that he rarely saw the Ras "in other than Ethiopian national dress. Large, bearded and silent, this imposing dignitary wore a black cloak with gold clasps worked into the form of lion heads. In working sessions, he used to take out with considerable pride a pair of folding half-lens spectacles with gold frames and bows."[1]
^Spencer, Ethiopia at Bay: A personal account of the Haile Selassie years (Algonac: Reference Publications, 1984), p. 257
II, and Tisseme Darge, the daughter of Ras Darge Sahle Selassie, brother of Menelik II's father. John Spencer, who advised Ras Kassa during the writing...
fight. Haile Selassie spent his exile years (1936–1941) in Bath, England, in Fairfield House, which he bought. The Emperor and KassaHaileDarge took morning...
He was the fourth son of Ras KassaHaileDarge, and his wife Princess (Le'ilt) Tsige Mariam Beshah. Prince Aserate Kassa was educated at Monkton Combe...
forces under Marshal Pietro Badoglio on Ethiopian forces under Ras KassaHaileDarge and Ras Seyoum Mangasha. This battle, which resulted in a decisive...
February 1928 – As Balcha Safo went to Addis Ababa, Tafari had Ras KassaHaileDarge buy off his army and arranged to have him displaced as the shum of...
forces under Marshal Pietro Badoglio and Ethiopian forces under Ras KassaHaileDarge. This battle was primarily fought around Worsege Pass (Italian: Passo...
and Lij Belw Darge The succession to Selale eventually passed on to his grandson Ras KassaHaileDarge, son of Woizero Tisseme Darge. Darge was the uncle...
Emperor Menelik II.[citation needed] Meanwhile, the regent sent Ras KassaHaileDarge to Balcha's camp, where he lied to the troops stating that Balcha...
("Prince of the Cadet line") Aberra Kassa was the second son of Ras ("Duke") KassaHaileDarge. KassaHaileDarge was a loyal ally of Negus Tafari Makonnen...
of Duke (Ras) KassaHaileDarge. KassaHaileDarge was a loyal ally of Negus Tafari Makonnen, who ultimately was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia...
Selassie of eastern Tigray Province, who handed Iyasu over to Ras KassaHaileDarge of Shewa Province. In his book Ethiopia, Power and Protest: Peasant...
Wondosson Kassa was the eldest son of Ras KassaHaileDarge. Ras Kassa was a loyal ally of Negus Tafari Makonnen, who ultimately was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie...
governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Communist Derg deposed the last Emperor, Haile Selassie I on 12 September 1974, and dissolved the council. Most members...
Makonnen Endelkachew was Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Imru Haile Selassie KassaHaileDarge Orde Wingate was a British Army Officer and commander of the...
Lij Iyasu. Iyasu was then delivered by him into the custody of Ras KassaHaileDarge. While sometimes referred to as "Emperor Iyasu V," Iyasu was never...
Princess Ayichesh was also the paternal grandmother of Leul Ras KassaHaileDarge. Leul Ras Kassa's father, Dejazmach Hailu, was her younger son and the half-brother...
married Wagshum Hailu, chief of Lasta, in 1868. They had a son in 1881, KassaHaileDarge. She later divorced and married Welde Tsadiq. "Interwar, Middle East...
Selassie. He was handed over to the custody of his cousin Ras KassaHaileDarge. Ras Kassa kept Iyasu in comfortable house arrest at his country home at...
on the left. Fitawrari Wondosson Kassa was the eldest son of Ras KassaHaileDarge, Qegnazmach Ayalew Birru commanded the troops from Semien, and Fitawrari...
Woizerit Hoy Manyahilush Kassa. Manyahilush was the second daughter of Ras KassaHaileDarge. Ayalew Birru and Manyahilush Kassa had children including...
Zaizhen of China (representing his cousin, the Emperor of China) Prince KassaHaileDarge of Ethiopia (representing his first cousin once removed, the Emperor...
become Emperor Haile Selassie I); the uprising never amounted to more than a show of force and was put down decisively by KassaHaileDarge. Balcha Safo...
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