Ethiopia: A Political History

Political Era

The Zagwe Period

c. 1137 – 1270

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The era of the Zagwe dynasty, centered in the Lasta highlands and remembered for its rock-hewn churches, ruling between the decline of Aksum and the Solomonic restoration.


Schema-test stub (draft). Lens: continuity of Christian kingship through a change of dynasty, and the legitimacy claims that followed. Full content to follow.

Sources

  1. Harold G. Marcus, A History of Ethiopia, updated ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).