Founding of the Ethiopian Gondarine Dynasty (1630s)

Name: Founding of the Ethiopian Gondarine Dynasty (1630s)
Start: 1632
End: 1638

Type Event Region East Africa Time 1632–1638

After Emperor Fasilides took the throne in 1632, he expelled the Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia and around 1636 began building Gondar in the north…

Timeline

1632–1635Northern Ethiopian Highlands · EthiopiaAfter acceding, Emperor Fasilides revoked the Catholicizing policies of his predecessor Susenyos, expelled the Jesuit missionaries, and restored the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church to state religion, winning broad support from conservative clergy and the populace.
1635–1638Gondar · EthiopiaFasilides chose a site in the highlands north of Lake Tana to build the city, constructing Fasil Ghebbi (Fasilides' Castle), which still stands today, ending the tradition of Ethiopian emperors' itinerant courts without a fixed capital; Gondar thereby became the permanent center of political and religious power.

Sources

A History of Ethiopia — Harold G. Marcus (1994)
Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/19/