Political Era
The Gondarine Period
1632 – 1769
Draft — not yet source-verified
The era in which Gondar served as a permanent royal capital — a flourishing of court culture and architecture — followed by the gradual erosion of central authority.
Schema-test stub (draft). Lens: a fixed capital and centralized court giving way to the fragmentation that opened the Era of Princes. Full content to follow.
Sources
- Harold G. Marcus, A History of Ethiopia, updated ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).