Zagwe dynasty

Zagwe Dynasty means " The dynasty of the Agau ". They ruled Ethiopia from the end of the kingdom of Aksum until 1270, when Yekuno Amlak recent Zagwe King defeated in battle and killed. Her most famous king was Gebra Maskal Lalibela, which had built the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela.

The Ethiopian historian Tadesse Tamrat argues that in contrast to the practice of later rulers of Ethiopia under the Zagwe Dynasty ( according to the rules of inheritance of the Agaw ) was the brother of the king of the throne.

History

The Zagwe dynasty came from a Christian family of the princely Agau. They moved the capital of Axum to Roha in Lasta.

The number of kings who belong to this dynasty is indeterminate: Ethiopian lists provide between five and sixteen names for the kings that should have belonged to this dynasty. It is unanimously King Mara Takla Haymanot, son of the last king of Axum, Dil Na'od, named as founders. However, the name of the last king of this dynasty was lost. Old surviving chronicles and oral traditions call him Za- Ilmaknun what is clearly a pseudonym ( Taddesse Tamrat translates it as "the unknown, the hidden one "). This name was used shortly after the end of his reign of the Solomonic Dynasty and was probably an act of Damnatio memoriae. Taddesse Tamrat believes that this last ruler actually Yetbarak said.