Ruler · 1201 – 1285

Yekuno Amlak

Lived 1201 – 1285; monarch. Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopian Empire, 1270 – 1285; also in the line of Solomonic dynasty.

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Lived: 1201 – 1285; 84 years
In office: 15 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

Emperor of Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire · the 2nd of 79 dated reigns · 1260 – 1974

Yetbarak1260 – 1268

Yekuno Amlak1270 – 1285

Yagbe'u Seyon1285 – 1295

Senfa Ared IV1294 – 1295

Hezba Asgad1295 – 1296

74 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 1270 – 1285 · 15 years

Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

Also in the line of Solomonic dynasty (1st of 1).

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