Egwale Anbesa

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Egwale Anbesa proclaimed himself nəgusä nägäst of Ethiopia in 1832.

A prophecy current at the time stated that a king named "Theodore" would arise, and bring peace and plenty to the country. Egwale Anbesa went to the church on the Qaha River near Gondar and sounded a horn, declaring that he was that Theodore.

That evening Sahla Dengel left the palace and went to where Egwale Anbesa was, and cut off his head, and set it in a tree at Adababay.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 482
Preceded by
Sahle Dengel		 Emperor of Ethiopia Succeeded by
Sahle Dengel
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