Menelik II
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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
The fortress of Magdala
Menelik meeting British explorers
Portrait of Menelik II
Yejju
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The Yejju, also historically known as the Yajju, Edjow, Edjou, Leggiu are a sub-clan of the Barento branch of Oromo people. They are one of the northernmost communities of Oromo people residing in Eth
Portrait of Woodage Asahel, a Yejju Oromo elite located in Gondar.
Ras Ali II of Yejju, the last de facto ruler of Abyssinia.
Kassa Hailu, later crowned Tewodros II, the man who ended the Zemene Mesafint.
A Yejju Oromo woman from Wollo spinning wool, 1869