Newaya Maryam

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Newaya Maryam (throne name Wedem Asfare or Gemma Asfare) was nəgusä nägäst (1372 - 1382) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the oldest son of Newaya Krestos.

During his reign, Haqq ad-Din II of the Walasma dynasty gained control of the kingdom of Ifat on the southeastern frontier of Ethiopia in 1376, and began raids against the Empire.^[1] According to E. A. Wallis Budge, the Royal Chronicles state that "little was known about" Newaya Maryam, and he died without issue.^[2]

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1. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 74.
2. ^ E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 300.

Preceded by Newaya Krestos

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Succeeded by Dawit I