Fasilides

Fasilides or Basilides ( äthiop. ፋሲልደስ, throne name Alam Sagad ዓለም ሰገድ, " before whom the world bows " ) ( born November 10, 1603 in the Kingdom of Shewa Magazaz, † October 18, 1667 ) was from 1632 until October 18, 1667 Negus Nagast ( Emperor ) of Ethiopia.

He was the son of the Emperor and Empress Sultana Susenyos Mogassa, the ruling Solomonic dynasty and was born in Magazaz in Shewa before 10 November 1603.

Already in 1630, after an uprising by Sersa Krestos, Fasilidas was proclaimed emperor. However, it took until the resignation of his father, until he could ascend the throne in 1632. Immediately after taking office, he sought the power of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to restore. He had a new Abuna come by and let revive this very old but neglected link by the Patriarch of Alexandria. At the same time he left the land of the Jesuits in Dankaz and other places seize the Empire and exiled them after Fremona. When he learned of the bombing of Mombasa by the Portuguese, believed Fasilides the Roman Catholic prelate Alfonso Mendez was behind this act, which caused him to refer the remaining Jesuits from his country. Mendez and most of his followers were able to return to Goa. On their way there they were robbed and imprisoned several times. In 1665 Fasilides ordered the remaining religious writings of the Catholics, to burn the ' Books of the Franks ".

He founded the city of Gondar in 1636 and later extended it to the capital. Later, in 1637, he undertook campaigns against the troublemaking Agau. Until the end of his reign, he was so encroachments of the Oromo busy in his kingdom ward and run punitive expeditions against the Agaw.

In the years 1664-1665 Fasilides sent an embassy to India by Aurangzeb to the throne to congratulate the Mughal Empire. When his son Dawit 1666 rebelled against him, Fasilides had this thrown into prison on Wehni. He was following the very old custom annoying members of the imperial family on mountain tops to hold, as well as before Amba Geshen.

Fasilides died in Azazo, eight kilometers south of Gondar. His body was buried in St. Stephen's monastery on the island in Lake Tana Daga. As Nathaniel T. Kenney saw the remains Fasilides, he noticed a smaller mummy in the same coffin. According to a monk, these were to Fasilides seven year old son Isur, which had been crushed in a crush of people in honor of the new king. 1