Zemene Mesafint
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The Zemene Mesafint variously translated "Era of Judges", "Era of the Princes," "Age of Princes," etc.; taken from the biblical Book of Judges was a period in Ethiopian history between the mid-18th an
Ethiopian warriors during the Zemene Mesafint
Empress Mentewab, an important figure of the Zemene Mesafint, prostrating herself before Mary on a painting from Narga Selassie, 1748
Abyssinian cavalry c. 1770 from German version Zu den Quellen des Blauen Nils of Bruce original work
Tewodros II, who brought an end to the Zemene Mesafint
Sabagadis Woldu
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Sabagadis Woldu was a governor of Tigray Province of the Ethiopian Empire from 1822 to 1831. Sabagadis gained some notoriety in the first decade of the 19th century for rebelling a number of times aga
A portrait of Sabagadis seeking the intercessions of St. Mary, on the wall iconography at the church of Gunda Gunde, Tigray.
