Malakotāwit
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
መለኮታዊት፡ Malakotāwit ʾǝtege role: title
Period of Activity
She was one of the concubines of the ʾIyāsu I and the mother of his son and successor Takla Hāymānot I . She craved for power and wanted to take her chance when ʾIyāsu I abdicated and Takla Hāymānot I assumed power. Thus, she organized the assassination of ʾIyāsu I by the hand of her brother Dǝrmǝn in 1706.
Death
she was hanged on a pole in the central square of Gondar↗ .
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Names
- birth: መለኮታዊት፡ gez
- ʾǝtege role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1658–1708
Death: 1708
Occupation
queen
Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions 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).
Secondary Bibliography
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Chernetsov, S. 2007. ‘Mäläkotawit’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 690a.b.
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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, ʻMalakotāwitʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2016-11-25) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS6578Malakota [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
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