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About Menilek II
Menelik II, baptised as Sahle Maryam, was king of Shewa from 1866 to 1889 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 to his death in 1913. A member of the Solomonic dynasty, Menelik expanded the Ethiopian Empire to its greatest historical extent and defeated Italian colonial forces at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
Everything about Menilek II →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Emperor of Ethiopia
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Born
- August 17, 1844
- Died
- December 12, 1913