Bakaffa
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Bakaffa birth name: Missah; throne name Aṣma Giyorgis, later Masih Sagad was Emperor of Ethiopia from 18 May 1721 to 19 September 1730, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a son of Emperor I
18th century depiction of Bakaffa I
Castle of Aṣma Giyorgis, Bakaffa
Masih Sagad, Bakaffa's Palace in Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar
Iyasu I
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Iyasu I, throne name Adyam Sagad, also known as Iyasu the Great, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 19 July 1682 until his death in 1706, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.
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…Sagad (Ge'ez: መሲሕ ሰገድ) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 18 May 1721 to 19 September 1730, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a son of Emperor Iyasu I and brother to Emperors Tekle Haymanot I and Dawit III. James Bruce describes Aṣma Giyorgis, Bakaffa as faced with the increasing enfeeblement of the…
Iyasu I with his court
Iyasu's Palace in the Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar
Illustration of Iyasu I from the book "Ethiopian chronicles of the XVII-XVIII centuries." (1929)