Talk:Zewditu I of Ethiopia

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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

Needs references, but otherwise a B.

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[edit] Discussion

This page was created as Empress Zaudito of Ethiopia in error, and a redirect page exists at Zaudito of Ethiopia requiring administrative assistance to correct. Whig 11:25, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 09:51, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Askala Maryam?

Are you sure she was baptised as Askala Maryam? Maryam is muslim name (arabised form of Mary). 87.250.113.199 17:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

If I'm not mistaken, it's also the Ethiopian rendering of the name. My understanding is that Maryam is rare or non-existent as a given name among Ethiopians (at least among Christians), but perhaps royalty is an exception. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Maryam is not particularly common by itself, but it is an Ethiopian name. The name being considered here is Askale Maryam (can be spelled Askala or Mariam, too; my mother's name, coincidentally), though. "Askal" is a type of Ethiopian flower, so the name means "Askal of Mary." It's not by any means limited to royalty. — ዮም | (Yom) | TalkcontribsEthiopia 21:49, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Speaking of spelling issues, I went ahead and normalized the various transliterations of Zewditu throughout the article (the variants are mentioned in the first para). --babbage (talk) 20:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)