Menelik II, baptised as Sahle Maryam, was king of Shewa from 1866 to 1889 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 to his death in 1913. A member of the Solomonic dynasty, Menelik expanded the Ethiopian Empi
Yohannes IV was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 until his death in 1889 at the Battle of Gallabat, and king of Tigray from 1869 to 1871. During his reign, he repelled a large-scale Egyptian invasion and