Last king of Kingdom of Wolaita in present-day Ethiopia
Kawo Tona Gaga
King of the Kingdom of Wolaita
Reign
1890–1896
Predecessor
Gaga Gobe
Successor
Annexation to the Ethiopian Empire
Dynasty
Tigre Dynasty
Kawo Tona Gaga was the last and most powerful king of the Kingdom of Wolaita. Tona Gaga was the 17th Kawo, or king, of the Tigre dynasty, the last independent dynasty of the Wolayta people.
KawoTonaGaga was the last and most powerful king of the Kingdom of Wolaita. TonaGaga was the 17th Kawo, or king, of the Tigre dynasty, the last independent...
also among the societies that settled along this trade rout as well. KawoTonaGaga, the last king of the Wolaita kingdom, was believed to be one of its...
118,000 Welayta and 90,000 Shewan troops died in the fighting. Kawo (King) KawoTonaGaga, the last king of Welayta, was defeated and Welayta conquered...
Millennium until 1894. The war of resistance led by the last Kawo (King) of Wolaita, TonaGaga, was one of the bloodiest campaigns in Menelik's whole period...
of Wolaita was ruled by more than fifty kings. The rulers used the title Kawo. Legendarily, ~1251 is the year of Welayta's founding. (In traditional oral...
Ung. Rinji O. S; Yandadi Yandadi O. S; Baganzamawa - Baganzamawa O. S; Kawo - Kawo O. S; Boragundura B-Boragundura; Bora Gunddara B/Gundara O. S; Autawa...