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Amda Seyon I — Wikipedia (en)

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Amda Seyon I, also known as Amda Tsiyon I (Ge'ez: ዐምደ ፡ ጽዮን ʿAmdä ṣəyon, Amharic: አምደ ፅዮን āmde ṣiyōn, "Pillar of Zion"), throne name Gebre Mesqel (ገብረ መስቀል gäbrä mäsḳal, "Servant of the Cross"), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1314 to 1344 and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. The most important source for the military actions undertaken during his reign is a Ge'ez account of his 1332 campaign against Ifat and Adal, known in English from G.W.B. Huntingford's translation as The Glorious Victories. This has also come to be the name for his conquests in modern times. He is best known from this account, often called his chronicle although it covers only the campaign of 1332–1333, as a heroic warrior against the Muslims. Its two critical editors, Paolo Marrassini and Manfred Kropp, as well as its English translator Huntingford and Tedeschi, regard it as the work of a contemporary written during his reign. Bertrand Hirsch has instead proposed that it is a 15th-century epic fiction that condenses about a century of conflicts with the sultans of Ifat (c. 1330–1430) into Amda Seyon's reign, a hypothesis he presents as still needing verification. Chekroun likewise places its composition in the 15th century. Solomon Gebreyes Beyene rejects this dating, citing a Ge'ez passage at the end of the chronicle stating that it was written during the king's lifetime. Edward Ullendorff argued the work was clearly written by an eyewitness, citing its vivid depiction of the king's campaigns and its engagingly personal anecdotes about his life. Other historians like Richard Pankhurst have praised the chronicle as a "masterpiece" of historiography. Most of his wars were against the Muslim sultanates to the southeast, which he was able to fight and generally defeat, and substantially enlarge his kingdom by gradually incorporating a number of smaller states. His conquests of Muslim borderlands greatly expanded Christian territory and power in the region, which were maintained for centuries after his death. Amda Seyon asserted the strength of the new Solomonic dynasty and therefore legitimized it. These expansions further provided for the spread of Christianity to frontier areas, sparking a long era of proselytization, Christianization, and integration of previously peripheral areas. According to British historian Edward Ullendorff, "Amda Seyon was one of the most outstanding Ethiopian kings of any age and a singular figure dominating the Horn of Africa in the fourteenth century."

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