Mairari Mairari was ''negus'' of Ethiopia, and some records list him as a member of the Zagwe dynasty. Little is known about his reign, which E.A. Wallis Budge states lasted 15 or 18 years.E. A. Wallis Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia'', ...

was ''

negus Negus (Negeuce, Negoose) ( gez, ንጉሥ, ' ; cf. ti, ነጋሲ ' ) is a title in the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It denotes a monarch,

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 ...

, and some records list him as a member of the

Zagwe dynasty The Zagwe dynasty ( Ge'ez: ዛጔ ሥርወ መንግሥት) was an Agaw medieval dynasty that ruled the northern parts of Ethiopia and Eritrea, after the historical name of the Lasta province. Centered at Lalibela, it ruled large parts of the t ...

. Little is known about his reign, which E.A. Wallis Budge states lasted 15 or 18 years.E. A. Wallis Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia'', 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 284. Budge wrote that Mairari died around 1308; other authorities date his death before 1270, when

Yekuno Amlak Yekuno Amlak ( Ge’ez: ይኩኖ አምላክ); throne name Tasfa Iyasus (ተስፋ ኢየሱስ; died 19 June 1285) was Emperor of Ethiopia, and the founder of the Solomonic dynasty, which lasted until 1974. He was a ruler from Bete Amhara (in ...

became ruler.

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Emperors of Ethiopia Zagwe dynasty Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Ethiopia-royal-stub