Names
birth: ኢያሱ፡↗ normalized: ʾIyāsu I↗ ʾaṣe role: title ↗ regnal: አድያም፡ ሰገድ፡↗ normalized: ʾAdyām Sagad↗ alt: ʾIyāsu the Great↗
Birth
1658-1659
Period of Activity
He succeeded his father King Yoḥannǝs I↗ in 1682.
Death
He was persecuted by the order of his own son King Takla Hāymānot I↗ (internal)
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Names
- birth: ኢያሱ፡ gez
- ʾaṣe role: title
- regnal: አድያም፡ ሰገድ፡ gez
- alt: ʾIyāsu the Great en
Dates
Birth: 1658–1659
Death: 1706
Occupation
Emperor
Residence
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Guidi, I., ed., 1960. Annales Iohannis I, ’Iyāsu I et Bakāffā. Textus, tr. I. Guidi, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 22, Scriptores Aethiopici, 5 (Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO, 1960).
Secondary Bibliography
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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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Bosc-Tiessé, C. 2007. ‘Iyasu I’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 249b–251a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻʾIyāsu Iʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-05-12) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS5616IyasuI [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
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- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Added name on 12.5.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 3.8.2016
- 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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