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1159: 343:, that a rooster was heard to prophesize outside of the house of the Yakuno Amlak for three months that whoever ate his head would be king. The king then had the bird killed and cooked, but the cook discarded the rooster's head—which Yekuno Amlak ate, and thus became ruler of Ethiopia. Scholars have pointed out the similarity between this legend and one about the first king of 409: 247: 55: 178: 274:
in 1270. The Zagwe dynasty, which had replaced the Aksumite royal house several centuries earlier, were depicted as "non-Israelite" usurpers. Yekuno Amlak's descendants, the Ethiopian emperors of the Solomonic dynasty, continued to propagate this
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Traditional history further reports that Yekuno Amlak was imprisoned by the Zagwe King Za-Ilmaknun ("the unknown, the hidden one") on Mount Malot, but managed to escape. He gathered support in the
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In the Ethiopian calendar, 10 Sené and 16 Nehasé, respectively. A. K. Irvine, "Review: The Different Collections of Nägś Hymns in Ethiopic Literature and Their Contributions."
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priests at the royal court as a result of this lack of attention from the Patriarch. Taddesse also notes that around this time, the Patriarchs of Alexandria and
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family. Later medieval texts, written in support of his dynasty, claimed that he was a direct male line descendant of the former royal house of the
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raised and educated him, helping him depose the last king of the Zagwe dynasty. Earlier hagiographies, however, state that it was
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successfully appealed to Yekuno Amlak in 1279 to restore his rule. Due to Yekuno Amlak's friendly relations with the Emirs of
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explains this discrepancy by pointing out Istifanos had once been the premier monastery of Ethiopia, but Tekle Haymanot's
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The church of Genneta Maryam, which is traditionally believed to have been built by Yekuno Amlak
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Recorded history affords more certainty as to his relations with other countries. For example,
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history, Getatchew Mekonnen Hasen, states that the last Zagwe king deposed by Yekuno Amlak was
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into the 20th century when the dynasty's claimed descent from Solomon was enshrined in the
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bishops forced Yekuno Amlak to rely on the Syrian partisans who arrived in his kingdom.
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There was also the story, related in both the "Life of Iyasus Mo'a" and the
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Non-contemporary portrait painting of Emperor Yekuno Amlak from 17th century
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strained these relations. A letter survives that he wrote to the Egyptian
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Contemporary portrait of Yekuno Amlak from the Genneta Maryam church,
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which was, itself, descended, it was claimed, from the biblical king
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Gates, Henry Louis; Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Niven, Steven J. (2012).
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were struggling for control of the appointment of the bishop of
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neighbors were friendly; however his attempts to be granted an
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The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 January 2008)
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states that Yekuno Amlak not only exchanged letters with the
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Taddesse Tamrat interprets Yekuno Amlak's son's allusion to
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it became the custom to appoint the abbot of Debre Libanos
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with an army of followers, defeated the Zagwe king at the
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to the Ethiopian throne when he overthrew the last of the
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Yekuno Amlak is credited with the construction of the
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had Yekuno Amlak's body re-interred in the church of
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eventually eclipsed Istifanos, and from the reign of
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During that time, the imperial title was claimed by
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Index

Yekuno Amlak of Ethiopia

Lalibela
Emperor of Ethiopia
Yagbe'u Seyon
Bete Amhara
Ethiopian Empire
Regnal name
Dynasty
House of Solomon
Tasfa Iyasus
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Ethiopic text
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Ge’ez
Emperor of Ethiopia
Solomonic dynasty
Bete Amhara
Wollo
Shewa
Zagwe

Amhara
Kingdom of Aksum
Solomon
Solomonic dynasty
Zagwe kings
origin myth
1955 Ethiopian constitution

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