Detail from a larger painting in the church at Axum
Emperor of Ethiopia (traditional)
Reign
982–957 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]
Predecessor
Makeda
Successor
Hanyon or Tomai (depending on the king list)
Born
c.1000 B.C.
Dynasty
House of Solomon
Father
King Solomon
Mother
Queen 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]
^ abC. F. Rey, In the Country of the Blue Nile (1927), Camelot Press, London, pg. 263
^C. F. Rey, In the Country of the Blue Nile (1927), Camelot Press, London, pg. 266
^Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 1). London: Methuen & Co. p. 229.
^Marrassini, Paolo. 2007. "Kəbrä Nägäśt." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: He-N: Vol. 3, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 364-368. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
^Fiaccadori, Gianfranco. 2007. "Mənilək I." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: He-N: Vol. 3, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 921-922. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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is said to have been placed in the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion by MenelikI for safekeeping. Islam came in the 7th century at the reign of Ashama...
Budge, E. A. (1928a). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume I). London: Methuen & Co. Dillmann, August (1853). "Zur Geschichte des abyssinischen...
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Jembere". Upon learning at Ethio-Française school in Addis Ababa, Menelik joined Haile Selassie I Theatre Orchestra in 1960. He continued his career as a vocal...
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