Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918

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Name (Hebrew)
טיטו בתול, קיסרית, בת זוגו של מנליק ה-2, קיסר אתיופיה, 1851 לערך-1918
Name (Latin)
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918
Other forms of name
Betul Hayle Maryam, Taytu, -1918
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, d. 1918
Tayetu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918
Tayitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918
Taytu Betul Hayle Maryam, -1918
Taytu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918
טאיתו בתול, קיסרית, בת זוגו של מנליק ה-2, קיסר אתיופיה, 1851 לערך-1918
תאיטו בתול, קיסרית, בת זוגו של מנליק ה-2, קיסר אתיופיה, 1851 לערך-1918
Date of birth
1851~
Date of death
1918-02-11
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 89739682
Wikidata: Q298216
Library of congress: n 85300671
BGU10: 000339311
Sources of Information
  • Rosenfeld, C.P. Empress Taytu and Menilek II, c1986:
  • Encyc. Brit., c1978
  • Marcus, H.G. The life and times of Menelik II, 1975:
  • Hist. dict. of Ethiopia, 2004
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Wikipedia description:

Taytu Betul (Amharic: ጣይቱ ብጡል Ṭaytu Bəṭul ; baptised as Wälättä Mikael; 1851 – 11 February 1918) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913 and the third wife of Emperor Menelik II. An influential figure in the anti-colonial resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, she, along with her husband, founded the modern Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in 1886.

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