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Newaya Maryam (throne name Wedem Asfare or Gemma Asfare) was nəgusä nägäst (1372 - 1382) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the oldest son of Newaya Krestos.
During his reign, Haqq ad-Din II of the Walasma dynasty gained control of the kingdom of Ifat on the southeastern frontier of Ethiopia in 1376, and began raids against the Empire.1 According to E. A. Wallis Budge, the Royal Chronicles state that "little was known about" Newaya Maryam, and he died without issue.2 He was buried at Asar, but his descendant Emperor Baeda Maryam had his body re-interred at the church of Atronsa Maryam.3
Notes
- ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 74.
- ^ E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 300.
- ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" (pdf) The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 January 2008)
| Preceded by Newaya Krestos |
Emperor of Ethiopia | Succeeded by Dawit I |
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