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Yohannes (other)
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Yohannes may refer to: * Yohannes (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Yohannes I of Ethiopia (died 1682) * Yohannes II of Ethiopia (1699–1769) * Yohannes III of Ethiopia (1797–1873) * Yohannes IV of Ethiopia (1837–1889) See also * John (given name) * Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yohannes (name)
Yohannes is a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Ras Mengesha Yohannes, acknowledged "natural" son and designated heir of Yohannes IV *Araya Selassie Yohannes (1870–1888), son of Yohannes IV and nominated Crown Prince * Aster Yohannes, veteran of Eritrean People's Liberation Front and an independence activist * Daniel Yohannes (born 1952), Ethiopian-American businessman and philanthropist *Dawit Yohannes (1956–2019), first Speaker of the Ethiopian Parliament's House of Peoples' Representatives * Fesshaye Yohannes (1954–?), Eritrean journalist * Musse Yohannes (born 1958), Ethiopian cyclist *Nebahne Yohannes, claimed the title of king of Ethiopia in the early 18th century * Tereza Yohannes (born 1982), Ethiopian long-distance runner * Zekarias Yohannes (1925–2016), Eritrean Catholic bishop Given name * Yohannes Bahçecioğlu (born 1988), German-Turkish footballer * Yohannes Gebregeorgis, founder of Ethiopia Reads *Yohannes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yohannes I
Yohannes I (), also known as Yohannes the Righteous (Ge'ez: ጻድቁ ዮሐንስ), throne name A'ilaf Sagad (Ge'ez: አእላፍ ሰገድ; 1640 – 19 July 1682) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1667 to 1682, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the fourth son of Fasilides. Yohannes was appointed '' nəgusä nägäst'' by a council of the senior dignitaries of the Empire, at the encouragement of the noble Blattengeta Malka Krestos. The council then imprisoned the other sons of Fasilides on Mount Wehni, continuing the practice Fasilides had revived. Ancestry Yohannes was the eldest son of Emperor Fasilides and succeeded him 1662. Reign According to G.W.B. Huntingford, Yohannes spent much of his reign campaigning, stating that 6 of the 11 itineraries he reproduced were military expeditions. Three of these were against the Agaw in Gojjam, and Agawmeder, one against the Oromo, and two punitive expeditions to the area around Mount Ashgwagwa— Angot and Lasta—to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yohannes II
Yohannes II ( Ge'ez: ዳግማዊ ዮሐንስ; 1699 – 18 October 1769) was Emperor of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Iyasu I, and brother of Emperors Tekle Haymanot I, Dawit III, and Bakaffa. During his brief reign of a little longer than five months, little of note happened. There are conflicting accounts of his death. Reign There are two versions of his reign and life: one that follows the history provided by James Bruce in his '' Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile'', the other based on other contemporary records as assembled by Shiferaw Bekele in a 2002 article. Bruce's version According to Bruce, during the reign of Yohannes' brother Bakaffa (1721-1730), the Emperor had vanished from view and a rumor circulated that Bakaffa had died. Qegnazmach Giyorgis acted on this by bringing Yohannes down from the royal prison on Wehni to rule, but before Yohannes could be proclaimed emperor, Bakaffa revealed himself and ordered the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yohannes III
Yohannes III (c. 1797 – c. 1873) was Emperor of Ethiopia intermittently between 1840 and 1851, and a member of Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Tekle Giyorgis. He was largely a figurehead, with real power in the hands of the ''Enderase'' or Regent, '' Ras'' Ali II a princeling of the Yejju Dynasty. ''Ras'' Ali's mother was the Empress Menen Liben Amede. Life During the various wars between ''Ras'' Ali and his leading rival for power, ''Dejazmach'' Wube Haile Maryam of Semien, Emperor Yohannes was deposed and restored several times between 30 August 1840 and 1851, alternating with his cousin Sahle Dengel. Yohannes was deposed the first time (October 1841) for showing himself a friend to ''Dejazmach'' Wube; he was restored briefly in 1845, then restored once again "by some unknown means" in 1850, according to E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge portrays Yohannes as a contemptible character, "only tolerated because he belonged to the Solomonic line. He was a glutton and a wine bibbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yohannes IV
Yohannes IV ( Tigrinya: ዮሓንስ ፬ይ ''Rabaiy Yōḥānnes''; horse name Abba Bezbiz also known as Kahśsai; born ''Lij'' Kahssai Mercha; 11 July 1837 – 10 March 1889) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to his death in 1889 at the Battle of Gallabat, and king of Tigray from 1869 to 1871. During his reign he successfully defended Ethiopia against a large-scale Egyptian invasion. In his earlier years, he rebelled against Tewodros II; having risen to power in the 1860s, he maintained the policy of Tewodros, that of continued unification and also implemented a policy of touring entire regions and meetings with governors. He assisted the British in their British expedition to Abyssinia which ended in Tewodros' suicide, from which Yohannes was rewarded in ammunition and artillery. He regarded Islam as a hindrance to the stability of the state and worked to strengthen Christian dominance in Ethiopia. Its estimated that he had converted 550,000 Oromos and Jebertis to Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John (given Name)
John ( ) is a common male name in the English language ultimately of Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew origin. The English form is from Middle English ''Ioon'', ''Ihon'', ''Iohn, Jan'' (mid-12c.), itself from Old French ''Jan'', ''Jean'', ''Jehan'' (Modern French ''Jean (male given name), Jean''), from Medieval Latin ''Johannes'', altered form of Late Latin ''Ioannes'', or the Middle English personal name is directly from Medieval Latin, which is from the Ancient Greek, Greek name Ioannis (Ιωάννης), originally borne by Hellenistic Judaism, Jews transliterating the Hebrew name ''Johanan (name), Yochanan'' (), the contracted form of the longer name (), meaning "YHWH is Gracious" or "YHWH is Merciful". There are numerous forms of the name in different languages; these were formerly often simply translated as "John" in English but are increasingly left in their native forms (see sidebar). The name Jonathan (name), Jonathan (or Jon) derives from a distinct Bible, Biblical name ''Yonatan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
