Historically, the
Kingdom of Wolaita
Kingdom of Wolaita, also known as Wolaita Kingdom, was a Realm, kingdom dominated by Wolayta people in today's southern Ethiopia from 1251 until conquest of Ethiopian Empire in 1894.
History
Wolaita tradition refounds the kingdom being well ...
was ruled by more than fifty kings.
[https://www.gijash.com/GIJASH_Vol.2_Issue.2_April2018/GIJASH002.pdf ] The rulers used the title ''Kawo''.
Legendarily, ~1251 is the year of
Welayta's founding. (In traditional oral sources, where the state of Wolayta also existed during the
Aksumite empire
The Kingdom of Aksum ( gez, መንግሥተ አክሱም, ), also known as the Kingdom of Axum or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom centered in Northeast Africa and South Arabia from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. Based primarily in wha ...
, or even earlier, with more than 42 dynasties. The Mala and Tigre dynasty are the most recent ones).'' The following were the rulers of the Wolayta kingdom and province in present-day southern
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
.
Notes
See also
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Monarchies of Ethiopia
{{Short description, Monarchies existed throughout Ethiopian history
This is a list of monarchies of Ethiopia that existed throughout the nation's history. It is divided into kingdoms that were subdivisions of Ethiopia, and kingdoms that were later ...
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Rulers and heads of state of Ethiopia
This article lists the emperors of Ethiopia, from the founding of the Zagwe dynasty in the 9th/10th century until 1974, when the last emperor from the Solomonic dynasty was deposed.
Kings of Aksum and Dʿmt are listed separately due to numerou ...
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Walayta
Walayta
Rulers of Ethiopia
Wolayita