Yeshaq Iyasu

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Yeshaq Iyasu claimed the title nəgusä nägäst (1685) of Ethiopia, supported by general Walle, and Tabdan the Hermit of Guondj who were enemies of Emperor Iyasu the Great. In short order, Emperor Iyasu marched against them, killed Yeshaq's supporters, and took the claimant captive.1

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  1. E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 410.
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