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Menelik II (17 August 1844 – 12 December 1913) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until he died in 1913.



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  • Menelik, king of Shewa 1877

    Menelik, king of Shewa

  • Menelik campaign map 2 3

    Menelik's campaigns 1889–96

  • Abyssinia1891map-excerpt1

    Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in an 1891 map, showing notional borders before the Battle of Adwa

  • Menelik - Adoua-2 (cropped)

    Menelik II observes the battle of Adwa against the Italian invasion army in 1896. Le Petit Journal, 1898.

  • Al campo di Borumieda (1899) Ras Mangascià con la pietra al collo, fa atto di sottomissione al Negus Menelik

    Menelik II in 1899

  • Emperor Menelik II (2141756150)

    Equestrian statue of Emperor Menelik II, the victor of Adwa. The statue was erected by Emperor Haile Selassie and dedicated on the day before his coronation in 1930, in memory of his great predecessor.

  • Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis

    Habtegyorgis Dinagde, from the Oromo Speaking Chebo tribe, was the Prime minister and war minister who was the most prominent general during Menelik, Lij Iyasu & Zewditu's reign

  • Africa 1909, Edward Hertslet (Map of Africa by treaty, 3rd edition)

    After the Treaty of Addis Ababa was signed in 1896, Europeans recognised the sovereignty of Ethiopia. Menelik then finalised signing treaties with Europeans to demarcate the border of modern Ethiopia by 1904

  • Dire Dawa-Djibouti train leaving, c. 1912.

    In 1894, Menelik granted a concession for building Ethio-Djibouti Railways

  • Taitu Betul v d

    Taytu Betul, the third wife of Menelik.

  • Emperor of Abyssinia Vanity Fair 1897-07-29

    The emperor caricatured by Glick for Vanity Fair (1897)

  • Menelik II Mausoleum

    Menelik's mausoleum.

  • Battle of Adwa tapestry at Smithsonian

    Tapestry of the Battle of Adwa.

  • Minilk

    Portrait of Menelik II

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