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Menelik II of Ethiopia

Menelik II of Ethiopia
Issue
NameMenelik II
Coronation3 November 1889
PredecessorYohannes IV
SuccessorLij Iyasu (designated but uncrowned Emperor of Ethiopia)
Zauditu
Shoagarad
Wossen Seged
HouseHouse of Solomon
FatherHaile Melekot, King of Shewa
MotherIjigayehu
ReligionEthiopian Orthodox|

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Emperor Menelik II GCB, GCMG, (Ge'ez ምኒልክ) baptized as Sahle Maryam (17 August 1844 - 12 December 1913), was Negus of Shewa (1866 � 89), then of Ethiopia from 1889 to his death. At the height of his internal power and external prestige, the process of territorial expansion and creation of the modern empire-state had been completed by 1898. Ethiopia was transformed under Nəgusä Nägäst Menelik: the major signposts of modernization were put in place. Externally, his victory over the Italians had earned him great fame: following Adwa, recognition of Ethiopia’s independence by external powers was expressed in terms of diplomatic representation at the court of Menelik and delineation of Ethiopia’s boundaries with the adjacent colonies.


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