Names
ሚናስ፡ Minās ʾaṣe role: title ሜናስ፡ Menās አድማስ፡ ሰገድ፡ ʾAdmās Sagad
Birth
1526
Period of Activity
He was the third son of ʾaṣe role: title . As a boy, Minās was prisoner of ʾAḥmad b. ʾIbrāhīm al-Ġāzī . He was then freed in a prisoner exchange in 1544. He succeeded his brother ʾaṣe role: title Galāwdewos in 1559.
Death
1563 (internal)
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Names
- birth: ሚናስ፡ gez
- ʾaṣe role: title
- birth: ሜናስ፡ gez
- regnal: አድማስ፡ ሰገድ፡ gez
Dates
Birth: 1526
Period of activity: 1559–1563
Death: 1563
Occupation
Emperor
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Pereira, F. M. E., ed., 1888. ዜና፡ ሚናስ። (zenā Minās, The history of Minās) Historia de Minás, ’Además Sagad, rei de Ethiopia, tr. F. M. E. Pereira, Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, 12/7 (Lisboa: Imperensa Nacional, 1888).
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Kropp, M. 1988. Die Geschichte des Lebna-Dengel, Claudius und Minās, I, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 503 Scriptores Aethiopici, 83 (Lovanii: Peeters, 1988).
Secondary Bibliography
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Kleiner, M. 2007. ‘Minas (king)’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 969b–971b.
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Correction to floruit on 19.8.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: addition to relation on 30.1.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: addition to the content on 27.1.2017
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: revised record, name spelling corrected, biography completed, relations corrected, bibliography added on 23.5.2016
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: completed record on 12.5.2016
- 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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