Tewoflos
Solomon Gebreyes
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Names
birth: ቴዎፍሎስ፡↗ normalized: Tewoflos↗ ʾaṣe role: title ↗ regnal: አጽራር፡ ሰገድ፡↗ normalized: ʾAṣrār Sagad↗
Period of Activity
He was a Gondarine king who succeeded his nephew Takla Hāymānot I↗ in1708. He came to throne at the instigation of one of the court notables, Yosṭos↗ , who later succeeded him. Shortly after his accession to power, Tewoflos↗ issued a proclamation establishing the doctrine of Qǝbāt as an official teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. This proclamation was challenged by the Tawāḥǝdo party. He faced also the challenges of several pretenders.
Death
He died of illness.
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Names
- birth: ቴዎፍሎስ፡ gez
- ʾaṣe role: title
- regnal: አጽራር፡ ሰገድ፡ gez
Dates
Period of activity: 1708–1711
Death: 1711
Occupation
Emperor
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Basset, R. 1882. Études sur l’histoire d’Éthiopie, ed., tr. R. Basset, Extrait du Journal Asiatique (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1882).
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Crummey, D. 2010. ‘Tewoflos’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 936b–937b.
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Budge, E. A. W. 1966. A history of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinia. According to the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Egypt and Nubia, and the Ethiopian chronicles (London; Oosterhout N.B.: Methuen [1928] Anthropological Publications, 1966).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻTewoflosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 25.11.2016) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS9449Tewoflos [Accessed: 2024-04-27+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 25.11.2016
- 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
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor