Names
ላሊበላ፡ Lālibalā ገብረ፡ መስቀል፡ Gabra Masqal ʾaṣe role: title
Period of Activity
He was a late 12th and early 13th century king of Zāgʷe dynasty. He is venerated as a saint in Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He succeeded his brother a saint king ʾaṣe role: titleḤarbāy . He was one of the best known Zāgʷe kings and one of the most famous Ethiopian rulers reputed as the builders of the rock hewn churches of Lalibalā↗ town.
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Names
- birth: ላሊበላ፡ gez
- regnal: ገብረ፡ መስቀል፡ gez
- ʾaṣe role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1190–1230
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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Perruchon, J. 1892. Vie de Lalibala roi d’Éthiopie. Texte éthiopien publié d’après un manuscrit du Musée Britannique et traduction française avec un résumé de l’histoire des Zagüés et la description des églises monolithes de Lalibala, tr. J. Perruchon, École des lettre d’Alger, Bulletin de correspondance africaine, 10 (Paris: Ernest Leroux Éditeur, 1892).
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Derat, M.-L. 2007. ‘Lalibäla’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 477b–480a.
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Sergew Hable Selassie 1972. Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 (Addis Ababa: United Printers, 1972).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, ʻLālibalāʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 27.3.2019) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS6152Lalibala [Accessed: 2024-04-18+02:00]
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- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: addition and minor change on 19.5.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: addition on 13.2.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Completed record on 27.7.2016
- 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
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