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History of Ethiopia - Leaving the Medieval World | | History of Ethiopia - Leaving the Medieval World: Encyclopedia II - History of Ethiopia - Leaving the Medieval World | | Under the Emperors Tewodros II (1855 - 1868), Yohannes IV (1872 - 1889), and Menelek II (1889 - 1913), the kingdom began to emerge from its medieval isolation.
Emperor Tewodros II was born Lij (= Mr) Kassa in Kwara, a small district of Western Amhara, in 1818. His father was a small local chief, and his uncle Ras Kinfu was governor of the districts of Dembea, Qwara and Chelga between Lake Tana and the undefined northwestern frontier. On the death of his uncle he was made chief of Kwara. He turned his attention to conquering the remaining chief divisions of the ...
See also:History of Ethiopia, History of Ethiopia - Earliest History, History of Ethiopia - The Axumite Kingdom, History of Ethiopia - The Ethiopian Dark Ages, History of Ethiopia - Portuguese Influence, History of Ethiopia - The Period of the Princes, History of Ethiopia - Leaving the Medieval World, History of Ethiopia - Interactions with European Colonial Powers, History of Ethiopia - Modern History, History of Ethiopia - Additional Reading, History of Ethiopia - Notes | | | History of Ethiopia, History of Ethiopia - Additional Reading, History of Ethiopia - Earliest History, History of Ethiopia - Interactions with European Colonial Powers, History of Ethiopia - Leaving the Medieval World, History of Ethiopia - Modern History, History of Ethiopia - Notes, History of Ethiopia - Portuguese Influence, History of Ethiopia - The Axumite Kingdom, History of Ethiopia - The Ethiopian Dark Ages, History of Ethiopia - The Period of the Princes | | |
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History of Ethiopia - Leaving the Medieval World
Under the Emperors Tewodros II (1855 - 1868), Yohannes IV (1872 - 1889), and Menelek II (1889 - 1913), the kingdom began to emerge from its medieval isolation.
Emperor Tewodros II was born Lij (= Mr) Kassa in Kwara, a small district of Western Amhara, in 1818. His father was a small local chief, and his uncle Ras Kinfu was governor of the districts of Dembea, Qwara and Chelga between Lake Tana and the undefined northwestern frontier. On the death of his uncle he was made chief of Kwara. He turned his attention to conquering the remaining chief divisions of the country, Gojjam, Tigray and Shewa, which still remained unsubdued.
On February 11, 1855, Kassa was crowned negusa nagast of Ethiopia under the name of Tewodros II. He soon after advanced against Shewa with a large army. Chief of the notables opposing him was its king Haile Melekot, a descendant of meridazmach Asfa Wossen. Dissensions broke out among the Shewans, and after a desperate and futile attack on Theodore at Dabra Berhan, Haile Melekot died of exhaustion and fever, nominating with his last breath his eleven-year-old son as successor (November 1855) under the name Negus Sahle Maryam (later he became emperor Menelek II). Darge, Haile's brother, took charge of the young prince, but after a hard fight with Angeda, one of Theodore's Rases, was obliged to capitulate. Sahle Maryam was handed over to the Emperor, taken to Gondar, and there trained in Theodore's service. Theodore afterwards devoted himself to modernizing and centralizing the legal and administrative structure of his kingdom, against the resistance of his governors.
In 1865, Sahle Maryam, now a dejazmach of Tigray, arrived in Shewa, and was there acclaimed as Negus. On the death of Tewodros, many Shewans, including Ras Darge, were released, and the young Negus of Shewa began to feel himself strong enough, after a few preliminary minor campaigns, to undertake offensive operations against the northern princes. But these projects were of little avail, for ras Kassai of Tigray, had by this time (1872) risen to supreme power in the north. Proclaiming himself negusa nagast under the name of Yohannes or John IV, he conquered Sahle Maryam and Shewa.
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