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Zara Yaqob

Type Figure Region Ethiopia Time 1399–1468 Also known as Zara Yaqob、Zaʾra Yāʿqob、扎拉·雅各布、君士坦丁一世、Constantine I、Kwestantinos I

Zara Yaqob (1399–1468) was a Solomonic emperor of Ethiopia who acceded in 1434, was crowned at Axum in 1436, and made Debre Berhan his capital;…

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  1. 1434–1441Debre Berhan · EthiopiaHe succeeded to the throne in 1434, completed his coronation at Axum in 1436, then moved the capital to Debre Berhan, reorganizing court and church institutions and laying the administrative foundation for his long reign.
  2. 1441–1445Debre Berhan · EthiopiaIn 1441 he sent a church delegation to the Council of Florence seeking contact with the Roman papacy and the Western Christian world; that same year he protested the Mamluk sultan's destruction of Egyptian monasteries and rebuilt the church of Debre Metmag to commemorate it.
  3. 1445–1468Debre Berhan · EthiopiaAround 1445 he repelled an invasion of the Adal Sultanate into Dewaro and elsewhere, continued enforcing church discipline and local administrative reforms, saw Ge'ez literature flourish under his rule, and died at Debre Berhan in 1468.

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