Amda Seyon I

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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...

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