Gudit

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Gudit (Ge'ez: ጉዲት)(fl. c. 960) was a 10th century queen, also known as Yodit in Tigrinya, and Amharic, but also Isato in Amharic, and Ga'wa in Ţilţal. The person behind these various alternative names was a powerful female ruler, probably Masoba Warq, the daughter of the last Aksumite king, Dil Na'od, mentioned in an early Arabic source. She was mentioned (though not by name) by Ibn Hawqal in his Surat al-Ard, and she is said to have been responsible for laying waste to the Kingdom of Aksum and its countryside, and the destruction of its churches and monuments in the 10th century AD. If she is the same as the Tirda' Gābāz in other Ethiopian sources, she is also said to have attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling dynasty.

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