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List of rulers of Shewa

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Field	Value
royal_title	Ruler
realm	Shewa
border	provincial
coatofarmssize	120px
image	Family tree of Shewa.jpg
caption	Family tree of the Shewan rulers
first_monarch	Abeto Nagasi Krestos
last_monarch	Sahle Mariam
style	His Majesty
residence	Ankober
Debre Birhan
Qundi (1808–1813)
Doqaqit (1745–1805)
Yifat
appointer	Hereditary
began	1682
ended	10 March 1889

Debre Birhan Qundi (1808–1813) Doqaqit (1745–1805) Yifat

This article lists the rulers of Shewa, a historical region of Ethiopia.

c. 960–1270

According to tradition, the Solomonic dynasty (1270–1974) was descended from king 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 330 years before the accession of Yekuno Amlak. A line of kings ruled at Shewa during the time of the Zagwe dynasty and claimed descent from Dil Na'od, the last king of Axum. The 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia includes eight unnumbered kings described as "8 generations of an Israelitish dynasty" who "did not mount the throne".

Portrait	Ruler	Reign	Notes
	Mahbara Wedem	c. 960
	Agbea Tseyon
	Tsenfa Arad
	Nagash Zare
	Asfeh
	Yakob
	Bahr Asagad
	Asgud		Additional name found on one regnal list quoted by Egyptologist Henry Salt.
	Edem Asagad	last=Truhart	first=Peter	url=https://archive.org/details/regentsofnations0000truh/mode/2up	title=Regents of Nations (Part 1)	publisher=K. G. Saur	year=1984	isbn=3-598-10492-8	location=Munich	page=103}}
[[File:Yekuno Amlak (cropped).jpg	95x95px]]	Yekuno Amlak	c. 1255–1270	Defeated the last Zagwe king and became Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1270–1285).

1682–1889

Claiming Solomonic descent, Nagasi Krestos established Shewa as an autonomous region of the weakening Ethiopian Empire in the 17th century before requesting the title of Meridazmatch, which would be adopted by his successors, and beginning a southern expansion of his realm that would culminate in the conquests of his descendant Menelik II.

Portrait	Ruler	Reign	Notes
	Nagasi Krestos	1682 – 1703	Abeto
	Sebestyanos	1703 – 1718	Merid Azmach
	Kidane Kale (Abuye)	1718 – 1744	Merid Azmach
	Amha Iyasus (Amhayes)	1744 – 1775	Merid Azmach
	Asfaw Wossen	1775 – 1808		Merid Azmach
	Wossen Seged	1808 –
June 1813	Merid Azmach and Ras
[[File:Negus Sahle Selassie.jpg	60px]]	Sahle Selassie	12 June 1813 –
22 October 1847	Merid Azmach, after 1839 Negus
[[File:Haile Melekot.JPG	60px]]	Haile Melekot	22 October 1847 –
9 November 1855	Negus
[[File:Menelik, king of Shewa 1877.png	60px]]	Sahle Mariam	9 November 1855 – 1856	First reign as Negus
	Haile Mikael	1856 to 1859	Son of Sahle Selassie, appointed Meridazmach by Emperor Tewodros II
	Bezabeh	1859	First reign, appointed by Emperor Tewodros II
	Seyfe	1859 – 1860	Son of Sahle Selassie, self-appointed Merid Azmach against Emperor Tewodros II
	Bezabeh	1860 – 1865	Second reign, restored by Emperor Tewodros II
[[File:Menelik, king of Shewa 1877.png	60px]]	Sahle Mariam	August 1865 –
10 March 1889	Second reign as Negus, became Emperor Menelik II

References

[[Henry Salt (Egyptologist). (1814). "A Voyage to Abyssinia". [[William Bulmer (printer).
Budge, E. A. Wallis. (1928). "A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume I)". Methuen & Co..
Rey, C. F.. (1927). "In the Country of the Blue Nile". Camelot Press.
[[Henry Salt (Egyptologist). (1814). "A Voyage to Abyssinia". [[William Bulmer (printer).
Truhart, Peter. (1984). "Regents of Nations (Part 1)". K. G. Saur.

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