Ruler · 1550 – 1597

Sarsa Dengel

Lived 1550 – 1597; monarch. Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopian Empire, 1563 – 1597.

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Lived: 1550 – 1597; 47 years
In office: 34 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Ethiopian Empire
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Emperor of Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire · the 28th of 79 dated reigns · 1260 – 1974

24 before

Dawit II1508 – 1540

Gelawdewos1540 – 1559

Menas of Ethiopia1559 – 1563

Sarsa Dengel1563 – 1597

Yaqob of Ethiopia1597 – 1603

Za Dengel1603 – 1604

Yaqob of Ethiopia1604 – 1607

48 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1563 – 1597 · 34 years · came to it aged 13

Came to it: electedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1597, the year they died

The son of Emperor Menas and Empress Admas Mogasa, Sarsa Dengel was elected king by the Shewan commanders of the army and the Dowager Empress.

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