Salomon II of Ethiopia

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Salomon II or Solomon II (Ge'ez ሣሎሞን) was nəgusä nägäst (13 April 1777 – 20 July 1779) of Ethiopia. He was the son of Abeto Adigo. He may be identical with the Emperor Solomon whom the traveler Henry Salt lists as one of the Emperors still alive at the time of his visit in 1809/1810.1

He was made Emperor by Ras Gusho and Wand Bewossen after they deposed Tekle Haymanot II. Richard Pankhurst credits him with the construction of Qeddus Fasilides ("St. Fasilides," literally "Holy Fasilides") church in Gondar.2

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  1. Henry Salt, A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country, 1814 (London: Frank Cass, 1967), p. 474.
  2. Richard P.K. Pankhurst, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 179.


Preceded by:
Tekle Haymanot II		 Emperor of Ethiopia Succeeded by:
Tekle Giyorgis


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