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Sissinios was crowned as emperor on March 18, 1608 at Axum.
Sissinios managed to put down the revolt, but at least 8,000 lives were lost in the process.
Sissinios died on September 7th of that year and was buried at the Church of Genneta Lyasus.
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  Encyclopedia: Sissinios of Ethiopia
The Emperor of Ethiopia (Amharic ንጉሠነገሥት, niguse negest, King of Kings) was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975.
Gorgora is a town in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, lying south of Gondar on the north shore of Lake Tana.
Sissinios at last converted to Catholicism in 1622 in a public ceremony, and separated himself from all of his wives and concubines except for his first wife.
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Sissinios (throne name Malak Sagad III) was negus (Wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg) (1607 - September 7, 1632) of Ethiopia (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia).
However, the tolerant and sensitive Paez died soon afterwards, and his replacement Alfonso Mendez, who arrived at Massawa (A port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea) on January 24, 1624, proved to be haughty and less tolerant of traditional practices.
This purposeless loss of life depressed Sissinios, and on returning to his palace at Dankaz, he granted his subjects freedom of worship, in effect restoring the traditional Ethiopian Church (additional info and facts about Ethiopian Church).
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 Sissinios of Ethiopia - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Sissinios (throne name Malak Sagad III) was negus negust (1607 - September 7, 1632) of Ethiopia.
Sissinios at last converted to Catholicism in 1622 in a public ceremony, and separated himself from all of his wives and concubines except for his first wife.
This purposeless loss of life depressed Sissinios, and on returning to his palace at Dankaz, he granted his subjects freedom of worship, in effect restoring the traditional Ethiopian Church.
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 East Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This, the oldest occupied tegion on the planet, is a blend of lush tropics and semi-arid desert, of prairie and mountain, of seacoast and inland districts.
The land of Ethiopia is a vast and mountainous region in northeastern Africa, with the arid plains of the Sudan to the west and the equally difficult terrain of the Harar to the east.
In the late 400's the "Nine Saints", a group of exiled Coptic theologians, brought Coptic beliefs to Ethiopia and brought the country in communion with the Copts of Egypt and the Jacobites of Syria.
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 Sissinios of Ethiopia
Sissinios (throne name Malak Sagad III) was nəgusä nägäst (1607 - September 7, 1632) of Ethiopia.
His father was Abeto (Prince) Fasilidos the Confused, from Shewa, a grandson of Dawit II; as a result, while some authorities list him as a member of the Solomonid dynasty, others consider him the founder of the Gondar line of the dynasty.
Sissinios became ruler following the defeat of first Za Sellase, then Yaqob at the Battle of Gol, located in southern Gojjam, in 1607.
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 Emperors of Ethiopia
Ethiopia was finally only conquered, briefly, between 1936 and 1941, by Italy, not, significantly, in the 19th century "scramble for Africa," but in the age of totalitarian conquest in the 1930's.
While Ethiopia had preserved its independence and Christian religion for centuries against Islâm, constantly enduring the depredations of Arab slavers, many, or most, of whose male victims were castrated, many foreign fls now blame and reject Christianity for the Atlantic slave trade which took their ancestors to the New World.
Ethiopia and her religion thus receive some respect from a source that, in general, one might have expected to be relatively unaware of the country and relatively hostile to the religion.
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 Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church at AllExperts
After repeated failures some measure of success was achieved under Emperor Sissinios, but not until 1624 did the Emperor make formal submission to the pope.
Sissinios made Roman Catholicism the official state religion but was met with heavy resistance by his subjects and eventually had to abdicate in 1632 to his son, Fasilides, who promptly returned the state religion to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.
Throughout Ethiopia, Orthodox churches are not considered churches until the local bishop gives them a tabot, a replica of the tablets in the original Ark of the Covenant.
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 Kingdoms of Africa - Ethiopia
Until the end of the sixth century, Axum is considered to be one of the most powerful and prosperous kingdoms in the known world, ranking on equal terms with Rome or Persia.
As the forces of the Prophet Muhummad creates the Islamic Empire, Ethiopia is encircled and begins nearly a thousand years of increasing isolation.
Victor Emmanuel (III of Italy) is styled "Emperor of Ethiopia".
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 ethiopia - Qwika
Hezqeyas of Ethiopia Hezqeyas or Hezekiah was niguse negest (26 July 1789 - January 1794) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty...
According to Richard Pankhurst, on the death of Tewoflos, the chief nobles of Ethiopia feared that the cycle of vengeance that...
Gabriel, the captain of the Portuguese in Ethiopia.
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 Shewa
In the 16th century, Shewa was ravaged and separated from the rest of Ethiopia by the forces of Ahmed Gragn; the region then came under pressure from the Oromo, who succeeded during the first decades of the following century in settling in the depopulated areas and making themselves masters.
His grandson Menelek II eventually would succeed as Emperor of all Ethiopia at the end of the century.
In recent times, Shewa was a Governorate-General (Province) under the monarchy, and was then an Administrative Region of Ethiopia under the Derg regime until 1984.
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 ethiopia - Qwika
Iyasu IV of Ethiopia Iyasus IV or Joshua IV was (18 June 1830 - 18 March 1832) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty...
Salomon III of Ethiopia Salomon III or Solomon III was (20...
Sissinios II of Ethiopia Sissinios II was (June 1770 - December 1770) of Ethiopia.
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 RELIGIONS of Ethiopia @ Sellassie Cyber University
The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia is sometimes thought of as a Coptic Church originating from missionary advances from Egypt, but it is rather an Orthodox Church brought to Ethiopia from Syria by two travelling Christian merchants in the fourth century.
The church in Ethiopia survived the Islamic conquests.
Ethiopian tradition says that Christianity came to Ethiopia at the beginning of the 4th century AD when two young students named Frumentius and Aedesius were forcibly taken from their boat and introduced to the royal court at Axum.
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 1632 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe.
Fasildos succeeds his father Sissinios as Emperor of Ethiopia
Christina becomes queen of Sweden; five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern country.
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 Sissinios of Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
However, he delayed being crowned until March 18 1608, in a ceremony at Axum described by Joao Gabriel, the captain of the Portugese in Ethiopia.
He showed the Jesuit missionaries his favor by a number of land grants, most importantly one at Gorgora, located on a penninsula on the northern shore of Lake Tana.
He ended his reign by abdicating in favor of his son, Fasilidos, and dying September 7,
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The Ethiopian emperor Sissinios established his royal court at Dankaz in 1618.
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