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Menelik I

Menelik I

10th century BC –10th century BC

Ruler

Born in
Ethiopia

Menelik I (Ge'ez: ምኒልክ, romanized: Mənilək), in Ethiopian mythology, was the reputed first Emperor of Ethiopia. According to the Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelik_I