The Zagwe dynasty (Amharic: ዛጔ መንግሥት) was a medieval Agaw monarchy that ruled the northern parts of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Agaw are a Cushitic ethnic...

centuries. The dynasty was founded by Yekuno Amlak, who overthrew the Zagwe dynasty in 1270. His successors claimed he was descended from the legendary...

Axum; despite this, prior to the beginning of the Solomonic Dynasty, most Axumite and Zagwe rulers went by negus. Its use meant that both subordinate officials...

Aksumites gave way to the Zagwe dynasty, who established a new capital at Lalibela before giving way to the Solomonic dynasty in the 13th century. During...

later serve as the center of the Zagwe dynasty. The Cushitic speaking Agaw formed and ruled during the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia from about 1137 to 1270...

onward. It persisted even after the transition from the Aksumite dynasty to the Zagwe dynasty in the 12th century, as attested by the numerous Aksumite influences...

by the first Hijra in 615. After the collapse of Aksum in 960, the Zagwe dynasty ruled the north-central parts of Ethiopia until being overthrown by...

saw extreme loss of territory and lasted until the ascension of the Zagwe dynasty. In the late 10th century, the Kingdom of Aksum fell to a queen known...

rulers that followed Menelik were the kings of Axum, the Zagwe dynasty and the Solomonic dynasty. Some monarchs who ruled before Menelik are recorded in...

the Zagwe dynasty. The latter remains one of the most poorly understood periods of Ethiopia's recorded history. What is known is that the early Zagwe kings...

medieval times, a kingdom ruled by the Zagwe dynasty developed but was later deposed by the Solomonic dynasty, who would establish the Ethiopian Empire...

uprising against the Zagwe dynasty from an enclave in Shewa. He claimed Solomonic forebears, direct descendants of the pre-Zagwe Axumite emperors, who...

site was named Lalibela after the King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned its construction. He is regarded as a saint by the...

all of these kings as rulers of the Zagwe dynasty instead. This list begins the dynasty with a king named "Zagwe", followed by king named "Del Na'ad"...

and her dynasty lasted until 1137 AD, when it was overthrown by Mara Takla Haymanot, resulting in the inception of the Agaw-led Zagwe dynasty. According...

supposedly Ethiopian Queen of Sheba." It enabled the overthrow of the Zagwe Dynasty. The Kebra Nagast is divided into 117 chapters, and is clearly a composite...

rule of the Zagwe Dynasty. The new rulers were Agaws that had come from the Lasta region, later ecclesiastical texts accused this dynasty of not having...

Yeshaq I; its use is now considered offensive. Zagwe, referring to the Agaw people of the Zagwe dynasty, among the original inhabitants of northwest Ethiopia...

information about the economic status of the period. The Zagwe dynasty, which succeeded the Axumite dynasty, reinvigorated Christendom after founding its capital...

Aksumite civilization was preserved and continued into the successive Zagwe dynasty. By this time, new ethnic groups emerged – the Tigrayans and Amharas...

her dynasty lasted until 1137 AD, when it was either overthrown or conquered by Mara Takla Haymanot, resulting in the inception of the Agaw-led Zagwe dynasty...

state from Aksum in the north to the Zagwe region of Lasta further inland. The Amhara nobles supported the Zagwe dynasty prince Lalibela in his power struggle...

late-12th and early-13th century King Gebre Meskel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned the massive building project of 11 rock-hewn churches...

of his dynasty's pretense that Yekuno Amlak "restored" the Solomonic dynasty to the Ethiopian throne when he overthrew the last of the Zagwe kings in...

Dil Na'od was the last King of Aksum before the Zagwe dynasty. He lived in either the 9th or 10th century. Dil Na'od was the younger son of Ged'a Jan...

alliances. The Zagwe dynasty ruled many parts of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea from approximately 1137 to 1270. The name of the dynasty comes from the Cushitic-speaking...

ruled during the 17th and 18th centuries B.C. as part of the Agdazyan dynasty which descended from Sheba, who himself was a descendant of Ham according...

ruler of the Zagwe dynasty, dismissing them as not of "the house of Israel" (i.e., of Solomon). and re-established the Solomonic Dynasty in 1270 AD. Acts...

following the collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum before the rise of the Zagwe dynasty in 1137 CE Khazar Kingdom, c. 750–950 CE (semi-nomadic Turkic state...

Yetbarak (Ge’ez: ይትባረክ) was King of Zagwe dynasty. According to Taddesse Tamrat, he was the son of Lalibela. Tradition states that Yetbarak ascended to...