Leader

Menelik II

Emperor of Ethiopia · 1844 – 1913

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Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1889–1913) who expanded and consolidated the modern Ethiopian state and led the Ethiopian victory over Italy at Adwa in 1896.

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Connections

Harold G. Marcus, The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844–1913 (Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1995).