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	Zagwe dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Zagwe dynasty ruled Ethiopia from the end of the Kingdom of Axum to 1270, when Yekuno Amlak defeated and killed the last Zagwe king in battle.
		Unlike the practice of later rulers of Ethiopia, Taddesse Tamrat argues that under the Zagwe dynasty the order of succession was that of brother succeeding brother as king, based on the Agaw laws of inheritance.
		However the name of the last king of this dynasty is lost -- the surviving chronicles and oral traditions give his name as Za-Ilmaknun, which is clearly a pseudonym (Taddesse Tamrat translates it as "The Unknown, the hidden one"), employed soon after his reign by the victorious Solomonic dynasty in an act of damnatio memoriae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zagwe_dynasty (310 words)

	Solomonic dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Solomonic dynasty is the traditional royal house of Ethiopia, claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said to have given birth to the traditional first king Menelik I after her Biblically-described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem.
		The dynasty, a bastion of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, came to rule Ethiopia in 1270 when Yekuno Amlak overthrew the last ruler of the Zagwe dynasty.
		During much of dynasty's existence, its effective realm was the northwestern quadrant of present-day Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Highlands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomonid_dynasty (444 words)

	Ethiopia - The Zagwe Dynasty
		Staunch Christians, the Zagwe devoted themselves to the construction of new churches and monasteries.
		Patrons of literature and the arts in the service of Christianity, the Zagwe kings were responsible, among other things, for the great churches carved into the rock in and around their capital at Adefa.
		By the time of the Zagwe, the Ethiopian church was showing the effects of long centuries of isolation from the larger Christian and Orthodox worlds.
	countrystudies.us /ethiopia/7.htm (651 words)

	c. Northeast Africa (Horn). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Nubia began to decline during the Egyptian dynasty of the Ayyubids.
		Succession problems in Ethiopia led to the Zagwe dynasty's overthrow at the hands of Yekunno-Amlak (1270–85), who established the Solomonic dynasty, claiming legitimate succession from ancient Ethiopian kings who had claimed descent from King Solomon of the Old Testament.
		Amda-Siyon, grandson of the founder of the Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia, gained the throne in 1314 and ruled until 1344.
	www.bartleby.com /67/360.html (544 words)

	Ethiopian History
		About 1137 A.D. a new Dynasty came to power in the Christian highlands known as the Zagwe Dynasty and its center was based in the Agew district of Lasta.
		The Zagwe kings were responsible, among other things, for the great churches carved into the rock in and around their capital at Adefa.
		Despite the Zagwe's championing of Christianity and their artistic achievements notwithstanding, there was discontent among the populace in what is now Eritrea and Tigray and among the Amhara, an increasingly powerful people who inhabited a region called Amhara to the south of the Zagwe center at Adefa.
	www.ethemb.se /ee_eth_hist.html (2299 words)

	Ethiopia - Ethiopian History - Zagwe Dynasty
		In the long term, this movement can be viewed as a crucial advance in the amalgamation of Abyssinia because the indigenous Agew people, up to this time under the a Semitic serfage, now acquired the upper hand and classes between the rulers and the ruled began to cease.
		The Stronghold of the Zagwé era, which occurred from about 1137 to 1270 CE, is one of the most ambiguous in the history of Ethiopia, for there was disappointingly few records found.
		Archaeology, so abundant for the Aksumite period, has very little to furnish for that of the Zagwé dynasty.
	www.geocities.com /mentiso/zagwe (375 words)

	ETHIOPIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Menilek I, son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon founded an Ethiopian dynasty.
		She returned with a son, Menilek I. Menilek founded a Solomonic dynasty which ruled Ethiopia until 1974 A.D. Emperor Haile Selassie, the last Solomonic monarch would carry Menilek's title of King of Kings, Lord of Lords, conquering Lion of Judah, and God Incarnate.
		Amlak's successors' aligned themselves with the Church to fight the Islamic threat to the kingdom.
	www.internetpuppets.org /afrethiopia.html (1270 words)

	Green Land Tours and Travel, services with utmost satisfaction in Ethiopia
		The decline of the Axumite dynasty gave rise to the Zagwe dynasty and, as a result, power shifted southward from Axum.
		The dynasty is historically important for the renaissance king's mobile camp and the introduction of a permanent capital.
		The attempt by King Fasiladas to end the Zagwe dynasty was successful and set Gondar as Ethiopia's capital from 1632 to 1868.
	www.greenlandethiopia.com /attractions.htm (1446 words)

	A Period of Conflict (c 700-1200 Ad.)
		The new rulers are collectively known as the Zagwe Dynasty in Ethiopian history and the y ruled the world of the Christian kingdom until the last quarter of the thirteenth century.
		Thus, although it can be surmised that the Zagwe kings may have used artisans from the eastern Mediterranean countries, the conception of the building was clearly indigenous and no doubt derived from the Aksumite heritage of the Zagwe dynasty.
		Despite later traditions to the contrary, therefore, the living achievements of the Zagwe dynasty clearly show that the period was one of cultural and literary revival in the Christian kingdom.
	www.alumbo.com /article/14905-A-Period-of-Conflict-c-700-1200-Ad.html (1126 words)

	LALIBALA, Ethiopia, Orthodox
		Lalibäla, Emperor, of the Zagwé dynasty is recognized as a saint by the Ethiopian Church and commemorated on 12 Säné (19 June).
		The former is believed to have been the last Zagwé ruler, though Ethiopian tradition states that Lalibäla did not wish his son to inherit his throne, and that he was succeeded by his nephew, Emperor Nä'akweto-Lä'ab, with whom Anab has been tentatively identified.
		The greatest testimony to Lalibäla's fame is the magnificent series of monolithic churches in his capital, hewn in the natural rock to design revealed to the Emperor in heaven during a vision, according to hagiographic tradition.
	www.dacb.org /stories/ethiopia/lalibala_.html (806 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - The Holy Land
		The most renowned, Lalibela, is said to have created one of the greatest wonders of Africa after an angel carried him to heaven: a city cut from the living rock in the highlands of Lasta, which is now called by his name.
		Thirteen churches can still be seen in the rock, an astonishing variety of passages leading deep into the hillside, revealing hidden chapels and sanctuaries where the ancient faith is preserved by priests and monks, and the bodies of thousands of devoted pilgrims were carefully stored until the end of the world.
		As the emperors of the Solomonid dynasty conquered the neighboring regions, they brought large numbers of people who were pagan or Muslim under Christian control.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi4/holy_2.htm (1119 words)

	Ethiopia
		The Zagwe era is one of the most artistically creative periods in Ethiopian history, involving among other things the carving of a large number of rock-hewn churches.
		The Zagwe heartland was well south of the old Aksumite domain, and the Zagwe interlude was but one phase in the long-term southward shift of the locus of political power.
		The successors of the Zagwe after the mid-thirteenth century--the members of the so-called "Solomonic" dynasty-- located themselves in the central highlands and involved themselves directly in the affairs of neighboring peoples still farther south and east.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Ethiopia.html (4742 words)

	Ethiopia
		The founder of Ethiopia (or Abyssinia) and the founder of the Imperial dynasty are held to be Menelik I, son of Solomon, King of Israel, and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.
		The settlement so engineered, granted the head of the Zewde dynasty the hereditary title of Wagshum together with rule over the Wag region and precedence immediately after the Emperor, together with the right to be seated in his presence on a silver throne one step below his and to the right.
		Princes of the dynasty being raised to the throne and deposed with the ebb and flow of military strength amongst the Gallas.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Ethiopia/ethiopia.htm (915 words)

	NÄ'AKWETO-LÄ-'AB, Ethiopia, Orthodox
		Nä'akweto-Lä-'Ab, or Nä'akuto-Lä-'Ab, Emperor of the Zagwé dynasty, was the nephew and successor of Emperor Lalibäla. He was probably the son of Lalibäla's elder brother and predecessor on the throne, Emperor Harbay, who appears under the name of Gäbrä-Maryam in some sources.
		It is tempting to interpret this as an allusion to his probable deposition by Yetbaräk and to assume that he lived on in hiding, as some traditions relate, depicting him as perpetually wandering between Jerusalem and the desolate land of Zäbul, east of Angot.
		While little credence can objectively be attached to the legends as such, they may perhaps indicate a darker side to his character or confused memories of violent acts associated with his name.
	www.dacb.org /stories/ethiopia/naakweto_laab.html (925 words)

	A short history of Ethiopia
		By the tenth century, the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia emerges as the post-Axumite christian empire.
		Like Axum, the Zagwe dynasty is a political empire rooted in religion.
		A new dynasty, claiming lineage from the mythical king Solomon of Israel and Queen Sheba of Ethiopia, comes to power around 1270.
	www.electionworld.org /history/ethiopia.htm (766 words)

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		The first dynasty of Ethiopia at Axum, the Axumite Empire [Ethiopia], was an off-shoot of the Kushite royal house, and indications are that it was its senior-line overthrown by a secondary-line, the Mosaic-Line.
		The original Kushite dynasty of Ethiopia [52 monarchs] ended in the male-line with an heiress, Queen Makeda, the famous "Queen of Sheba", whose son by King Solomon of Israel, Menelik, founded another Axumite dynasty, which by male-line descent was Jewish by race.
		Takle was the son of the Himyarite chief Qatban Awkan, a Mosiac, i.e., Zagwe, Prince.
	www.angelfire.com /ego/et_deo/africa2europe.wps.htm (4596 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Zagwe
		Around 1030 she herself was purged from power, and eventually - in 1137 - succeeded by the christian ZAGWE DYNASTY.
		As the succeeding Neosolomonian Dynasty regarded the Zagwe Dynasty as usurpers, our sources on them are often biased.
		The Zagwe dynasty period is one of those lesser documented in Ethiopian history.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eastafrica/zagwe.html (171 words)

	A period of Conflict (c. 700-1200 Ad.)
		The Solomonic Dynasty, Monasticism and the Expansion of the Church.
		This dynasty was overthrown by Yikunno-Amlak, an Amhara warrior of the central province of what is now Wollo, which constituted the southern part of the Zagwe kingdom.
		Just as in the preceding period of the Zagwe dynasty, the major aspects of the social, cultural, and military organization of the mediaeval Christian kingdom were a direct replica of the Aksumite kingdom.
	www.alumbo.com /cgi-bin/article/14906 (1273 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Imperial Dynasty of the Emperors of Ethiopia is one of the oldest in the World, if not the oldest.
		The Dynasty became Christian during the reign of the brothers and co-Emperors Abreha and Atsbeha, also known as Ezana and Shezana in the 4th Century.
		The Solomonic dynasty was deposed around the turn of the first millenium, and was replaced by the Zagwe dynasty for about two hundred years.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Emperor_of_Ethiopia.html (240 words)

	Ethiopian Treasures - Zagwe Dynasty, Rock-hewn Churches - Lalibela
		It is said that at that time the Felashas refused to pay taxes to the Aksumite kingdom and the king of Aksum sent troops to the Felasha regions and forced them to pay taxes.
		This led to the rise of the "Zagwe Dynasty".
		In 1270, the Zagwe Dynasty ended and Yekuno Amlak took the throne and restored the "Solomonic Dynasty".
	www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/lalibela.htm (406 words)

	IMPERIAL ETHIOPIA HOME PAGE
		The Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia reigned with few interuptions from it's founding by Menelik I, son of the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, untill the fall of Haile Selassie I in 1974.
		Following the fall of the Solomonic Dynasty, the throne was assumed by a new royal house known as the Zagwe Dynasty, founded by Emperor Mara Tekle Haimanot.
		The Imperial Dynasty of Ethiopia, the oldest Royal House in the world,(along with the Imperial Dynasty of Japan), continues in existence.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/ethiocrown (3595 words)

	Da House of Dread
		The Imperial Family of Ethiopia is often refered to as the Solomonic Dynasty, or the House of Solomon (Bete Solomon).
		He was the founder of the Solomonic Dynasty in Ethiopia, and is said to be the first monarch to use the title of King of Kings of Ethiopia.
		After a brief war, the last of the Zagwe Emperors, Nakuto Le Ab, was convinced by St. Tekle Haimanot, the founder of Debre Libanos Monastery (thus the first Echege of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church) to relinquish the throne in favor of Yekonu Amlak, a direct decendent of the last Axumite Emperor Anbassa Widim.
	groups.msn.com /DaHouseofDread/lineageofkings.msnw (2817 words)

	PLAYAHATA.COM
		Some believe she was a member of the Zagwe dynasty.
		It is unknown whether the Zagwe dynasty was a descendant of the Solomonic dynasty or whether Gudit herself founded it.
		The 2,000 year- old Solomonid dynasty was kept from the throne for another 300 years thereafter by the Zagwes dynasty of which Gudit was a part or perhaps even founded.
	www.playahata.com /pages/bhfigures/bhfigures4.html (504 words)

	Ethiopian History 500bc - 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 12th century the Zagwe dynasty developed in the highlands.
		This dynasty is overthrown by a Amharic chief Yekunno-Amlak.
		The period between 1270 and the 16th century is considered as the Ethiopian middle ages, this to distinguish it from the old periods of Axum and Zagwe.
	home.wanadoo.nl /spaansen/history1.htm (1532 words)

	Acidophilus notes \| 17:55
		One of the highlights of this dynasty was the reign of Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, in whose reign the stone churches of Lalibela were carved.
		In about 1270, a new dynasty established the Abyssinian highlands as their realm in person of Yekuno Amlak who deposed the last of the Zagwe kings and married one of their daughters.
		According to legends the new dynasty were male-line descendants of Axumite monarchs, now recognized as the continuing Solomonic dynasty (the kingdom being thus restored to the biblical royal house).
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=History_of_Ethiopia (6750 words)

	Son of the pioneers: the proud Neftegna
		The Zagwe Dynasty was thus established that continued for about four centuries.
		The Zagwe dynasty ended in 1252 AD when the Agaw power declined and the Agazians reestablished themselves.
		After the end of the Zagwe dynasty, some of the Christian ‘Tigroch’ returned to Axum while the Amaroch pioneered deep into the west and south of Ethiopia building new towns, palaces, churches and monasteries.
	ethiomedia.com /courier/proud_neftegna.html (2722 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Taddesse Tamrat discredits this tradition, arguing that the records of the Zagwe dynasty betray too many disputed successions for this to have been the case.
		The claim to their relationship to the Kings of Axum derives from Yakuno Amlak's claim that he was the descendant of Dil Na'od, through his father, although he defeated and killed the last Zagwe king in battle.
		The restored Solomonic dynasty, which claimed descent from the old Aksumite rulers, ruled Ethiopia from 13th century until 1974, with only a couple of usurpers.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Emperor_of_Ethiopia (1138 words)

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