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Key facts
- Reign
- c. 975 – 950 B.C.
- Predecessor
- Makeda
- Successor
- Hanyon or Tomai (depending on the king list )
- Born
- c. 1000 B.C., Mai-Bela (now near Asmara , Eritrea )
- Dynasty
- House of Solomon
- Father
- King Solomon
- Mother
- Queen of Sheba
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Place of birth
- Ethiopia
- Father
- Solomon
- Mother
- Queen of Sheba
- Sibling
- Rehoboam
- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- Emperor of Ethiopia
- Family
- House of Solomon
- Image
- ArkCovenant-Axum (Menelik I).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1000-01-01
- date of death
- 1000-01-01
- Commons category
- Menelik I of Ethiopia
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Encyclopedic overview
Menelik I (Ge'ez: ምኒልክ, Mənilək) was the first Emperor of Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty. According to the Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Menelik I” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.