Demetros of Ethiopia

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Demetros or Demetrius was nəgusä nägäst (July 25, 1799 – 24 March 1800 and June 1800 – June 1801) of Ethiopia. He was the son of Arqedewos. If he is identical with the "Adimo" mentioned in the account of the traveler Henry Salt, then Emperor Demetros was dead by the time of Salt's visit to northern Ethiopia in 1809/1810.¹

E.A. Wallis Budge writes that the Royal Chronicle states that "some of the great governors dragged him to the palace (in Gondar) without his consent, and proclaimed him king."² Demetros was deposed in March, 1800 in favor of Tekle Giyorgis I; then Tekle Giyorgis I was deposed a final time and Demetrios restored to the throne for a year.

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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. E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970) p.480

Preceded by Salomon III

Emperor of Ethiopia 1799–1800

Succeeded by Tekle Giyorgis I

Preceded by Tekle Giyorgis I

Emperor of Ethiopia 1800–1801

Succeeded by Egwale Seyon