Word: menelik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sublime and Imperial Majesty the Empress Zaudita, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. conferred last week upon her cousin Ras Tafari, the trusted Regent of her Empire, a potent title; "King of Kings of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect...
This tale Doctor Garabedian tells. Six years ago he came to Abyssinia to practice the quieter forms of medicine. He became a favorite of Ras Taffari. But Ras Taffari wanted to become Emperor. Two persons were in his way. One was the Empress, Zauditu, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. The other was his mother-in-law, sister of the deposed (1916) Emperor Yasu...
Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
...Islamic faith and the Germano-Turkish cause. Vexed, a majority of the feudal chieftains of Abyssinia, stout Christians according to their somewhat pagan lights, supported a successful pro-Christian, pro-Ally revolution. Prince Taffari, an able statesman but by lineage a mere great nephew of the revered late Emperor Menelik, was prudently installed as Regent for the Empress Zanditu, a daughter of the Emperor Menelik, and proclaimed heir to the Throne by the revolutionary feudal lords...
Ellis went on, and delivered the treaty to King Menelik. He gave the King heavily jeweled saddles and other gorgeous presents. In return Menelik made him Duke of Harrar and Hawash, a duchy of 1,600,000 acres in extent. But if he had plans to exploit Abyssinia, they came to naught. He returned to the U. S. and had a home at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., still maintaining his interests in Mexico. In 1903 he had married Ida Lefferts Sherwood, and at his death left her and four sons, Guillermo Enrique, Jr., Carlos Sherwood, Porfirio Diaz and Sherwood...