Names
ኢያሱ፡ ʾIyāsu አባ፡ ጤና፡ ʾAbbā Ṭenā lǝǧ role: title
Birth
He was born at Dase↗ in 1897.
Period of Activity
He was the uncrowned ruler of Ethiopia↗ , from 1911to 1916. His reign has been one of the most enigmatic and controversial in Ethiopian history. Maligned as a play boy and apostate by Ḫāyla Śǝllāse I , he had effectively been written out of history books from much of the 20th century. But after the deposition of Ḫāyla Śǝllāse I in 1974, have there been some attempts to rehabilitate him in the historiography. Though his true character and historical worth has remained elusive to this day, there were some reforms attributed to him include the abolition of the qʷǝññā system whereby plaintiff was chained to defendants and creditor to debtor, pending justice, mitigation of the abuses of the traditional theft defection system known as lebā šāy, alleviation of the inequities, attending the collection of tithe (Aśrāt and institution of the city guards known as ṭǝrǝmbuli. In addition, he introduced a system of auditing government accounts to check the embezzlement of government funds that had begun to assume serious dimensions. His reign also marked the first attempt to address the issue of the country's religious and ethnic pluralism.
Death
1935
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Names
- baptismal: ኢያሱ፡ gez
- horse: አባ፡ ጤና፡ gez
- lǝǧ role: title
Dates
Birth: 1897
Period of activity: 1911–1916
Death: 1935
Occupation
prince
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Bahru Zewde 2007. ‘Iyasu’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 253b–256b.
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Solomon Gebreyes, Dorothea Reule, ʻʾIyāsuʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 21.8.2019) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS5620IyasuV [Accessed: 2024-04-19+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes correction to date of floruit on 21.8.2019
- Dorothea Reule Added wikidata on 11.10.2018
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 20.8.2018
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
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