Malʾaka Ḍaḥay ʾIyāsu
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: መልአከ፡ ፀሐይ፡ ኢያሱ፡↗ normalized: Malʾaka Ḍaḥay ʾIyāsu↗
Birth
1916
Period of Activity
He was the illegitimate son of lǝǧ role: title ↗ who was born probably soon after ʾIyāsu↗ had been deposed as emperor. His existence and whereabouts were kept secret until the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in 1935. Following the occupation in 1935 and Ḫāyla Śǝllāse I↗ 's escape in 1936, the freedom fighters, feeling the need for a leader from the Imperial family to unite the resistance movement, considered to crown him. Thus, he was crowned emperor in 1937. However, his tenure was short-lived and he died a year later.
Death
1938
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Names
- birth: መልአከ፡ ፀሐይ፡ ኢያሱ፡ gez
Dates
Birth: 1916
Period of activity: 1937–1938
Death: 1938
Occupation
leader
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Molvaer, R. K. 2007. ‘Mälʾakä Ṣ́äḥay Iyasu’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 688b–689a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻMalʾaka Ḍaḥay ʾIyāsuʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2.5.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS6575Malaka [Accessed: 2024-03-28+01:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 2.5.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor