Governor of the Tigray Province of the Ethiopian Empire from 1822 to 1831
Sabagadis Woldu ሳባጋዲስ ዎልዱ
A portrait of Sabagadis seeking the intercessions of St. Mary, on the wall iconography at the church of Gunda Gunde, Tigray.
Governor of Tigray
In office 1822–1831
Preceded by
Wolde Selassie
Succeeded by
Wube Haile Maryam
Shum of Agame
In office 1810–1831
Preceded by
Woldu Kumanit
Succeeded by
Aregawi Sabagadis
Personal details
Born
1780 Agame, Tigray Province, Ethiopian Empire
Died
1831 Debre Abbay, Ethiopian Empire
Parents
Shum Agame Woldu Kumanit (father)
Woizero Sabana Giyorgis (mother)
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Sabagadis Woldu (Tigrinya: ሳባጋዲስ ዎልዱ; horse name: Abba Garray; baptismal name: Za-Manfas Qedus; 1780 – 1831) was a governor of Tigray Province of the Ethiopian Empire from 1822 to 1831.[1] Sabagadis gained some notoriety in the first decade of the 19th century for rebelling a number of times against his overlord, Ras Wolde Selassie. But just before the death of Wolde Selassie it seems that he made up with his master and became one of his loyal lieutenants. Following Wolde Selassie's death in 1816, he defied the authority of Wolde Selassie's son, and became the most powerful warlord in Tigray. Making Adigrat his capital, he ruled Tigray and a small strip of the coastal plains of Eritrea by 1818.[2] His rule also extended to the Eritrean highlands (Hamasien, Akele Guzay, and Seraye).[3]
^Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2010. pp. 430–431. ISBN 978-3-447-06246-6.
^Richard K.P. Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), vol. 1 p. 210.
^Coulbeaux, Jean-Baptiste, Histoire Politique et Religieuse d’Abyssinie: Depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à l’avènement de Ménélik II, 3 vols. (Paris, Geuthner, 1928), pp.381-382.
SabagadisWoldu (Tigrinya: ሳባጋዲስ ዎልዱ; horse name: Abba Garray; baptismal name: Za-Manfas Qedus; 1780 – 1831) was a governor of Tigray Province of the...
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Merso fled to Tigray province. Betul's sister Yewub-dar was married to SabagadisWoldu, the Irob warlord that controlled much of Tigray. In 1831, however...
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became overshadowed by Adigrat, the new political center established by SabagadisWoldu of Agame. The latter succeeded Wolde Selassie as Governor of Tigray...
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