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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