Baéda-Maryam
Baéda-Maryam was the king of Ethiopia under the name of Qirqos and of Dawit of 1468 with 1478.
With its death, Zara Yacoub leaves to him an empire which extends from Baraca and Massaoua until the Ifat, to the Fatajar, in Bali. It fixed the sultan of Hadya and preserved the States of the Sidamo, conquered until the Ouollamo by Yéshaq.
Baéda-Maryam benefits the beginning from its reign from peace with the Moslem kingdoms to send forwardings against the Falachas of Sémién and Tséllemt (the first are overcome) and to carry out itself a campaign against Doba of Amba-Alagui, to make safe the road of the caravans come from the Tigré.
Baéda-Maryam restores part of the feudal institutions repealed by Zara Yacoub. Very pious, it passes the major part of its reign to visit the churches and the monasteries of its kingdom. It is tolerant with the animists, but neglects the Moslem threat which planes on its Eastern borders.
In 1471, Moslems of the Adal, Danakil and Somali, carried out by imâms, launch a true holy war against Ethiopia. They are overcome initially, but two Ethiopian armies are defeats by the Moslem Afar in 1473 and 1474.
Eskender succeeds his/her Baéda-Maryam father in 1478, at the seven years age.
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