Gudit (Ge'ez: ጉዲት) is the Classical Ethiopic name for a personage also known as Yodit in Tigrinya, and Amharic, but also Isato in Amharic, and Ga'wa in...
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been the former residence of the Queen of Sheba, as well as Kandake and Gudit. Describing the church, he wrote: "This church is very large; it has five...
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Dil Na'od was overthrown by Gudit, and that Mara Takla Haymanot (whom Bruce calls "Takla Haymanot") was a cousin of Gudit who succeeded her after several...
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Aksum. The ruins are in the western part of Aksum, across the road from the Gudit stelae field. Dungur is known locally and popularly as the Palace of the...
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reign of Ezana. Local history holds that, around 960, a Jewish Queen named Gudit defeated the empire and burned its churches and literature. While there...
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Kingdom of Aksum (section Gudit's invasion)
history holds that, around 960, a Jewish Queen named Yodit (Judith) or "Gudit" defeated the empire and burned its churches and literature. While there...
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Solomon and queen Makeda via the kings of Axum. After Axum was destroyed by Gudit in the 10th century, the royal family fled to Shewa and reigned there for...
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(established by Mar-Zutra II) Kingdom of Simien, Ethiopia legendary but Gudit was thought to have reigned 960–1000 CE following the collapse of the Kingdom...
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Bruce has recorded another tradition, that Dil Na'od was an infant when Gudit slaughtered the princes imprisoned at Debre Damo, his relatives, and forced...
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University is established in Cairo by the Fatimid dynasty. c. 980: Queen Gudit leads her rebellion against the Aksumite dynasty of Abyssinia. Collapse...
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practiced on Debre Damo, which was captured by the 10th-century queen Yodit or "Gudit", who then isolated 200 princes there to death; however, Pakenham also notes...
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1970s where he was told the ceiling was blackened by soot due to Queen Gudit setting a fire in the building nine centuries earlier. Briggs, Philip; Blatt...
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allowed to leave the courtyard of the church. During the persecution of Gudit in the 10th century and the Ethiopian-Adal war in the 16th century the Ark...
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least twice. Its first putative destruction occurred at the hands of Queen Gudit during the 10th century. Its second, confirmed, destruction occurred in...
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part of an important trade route. Aksum came to an end in 960 when Queen Gudit defeated the last king of Aksum. In response, the remnant of the Aksumite...
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of Christ (9–306) The Christian Era (306–850) The Reign of Gudit (850–920) (Includes Gudit's reign followed by the last two kings of the Axumite line)...
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had used Shewa as their safe haven when their survival was threatened by Gudit and other enemies. This is the reason why the region got the name "Shewa"...
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Axum states that Wedem Asfare was the grandfather of the infamous queen Gudit, who sacked Axum in the 10th century. According to this chronicle, she was...
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In the late 10th century, the Kingdom of Aksum fell to a queen known as Gudit. Historians are unsure of her ethnicity and religion, but she is theorized...
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missing publisher (link) Selassie, Sergew Hable (1972b). "The Problem of Gudit". Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 10 (1): 113–124. ISSN 0304-2243. JSTOR 41965849...
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its history. Historically, notable persecutions attributed during Yodit Gudit era in 980, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi invasion of Ethiopian Empire during...
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queen Gudit and located in the Simien Mountains. Accordingly, Gudit defeated and killed Aksum's king, and burnt their churches. It's possible that Gudit was...
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London: Methuen & Co. p. 259. Selassie, Sergew Hable (1972). "The Problem of Gudit". Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 10 (1): 115. JSTOR 41965849. Taddesse Tamrat...
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Judy (disambiguation) Judita, a 1501 Croatian epic poem by Marko Marulić Gudit Medieval Ethiopian Queen, likely variant of the same name This disambiguation...
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988), daughter of Géza of Hungary and Sarolt, married Bolesław I Chrobry Gudit, legendary queen of the Kingdom of Semien, sometimes referred to as Judith...
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embossed with the Star of David. The Damot Kingdom, led by the Jewish Queen Gudit, also had a significant impact on the spread of Judaism in the region.[citation...
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Kebra Nagast and some traditional Ethiopian histories have stated that Gudit (or "Yudit", Judith; another name given her was "Esato", Esther), a 10th-century...
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Judith of Schweinfurt (fl. 1003–1058), wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia Gudit (fl. 960), queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith...
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pillage of its capital — also named Axum — in the 10th century by Queen Gudit. Nevertheless, the core Aksumite civilization was preserved and continued...
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(2015). History of Harar and Hararis (PDF). Harar Culture Bureau. p. 105. "Gudit fl. 10th century Orthodox Ethiopia". Archived from the original on 12 February...
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