Sarwe Iyasus (), throne name Mehreka Nañ (Ge'ez: ምሕርከ ናኝ), was

Emperor of Ethiopia The emperor of Ethiopia (, "King of Kings"), also known as the Atse (, "emperor"), was the hereditary monarchy, hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire, from at least the 13th century until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. The emperor w ...

in 1433, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the older son of Takla Maryam. According to

E. A. Wallis Budge Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptology, Egyptologist, Orientalism, Orientalist, and Philology, philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient ...

, Sarwe Iyasus ruled for either four or eight months, and died of plague. According to

James Bruce James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the fir ...

, some of the Ethiopian lists of rulers omit his name.James Bruce, ''Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile'' (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 98

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1433 deaths 15th-century deaths from plague (disease) 15th-century monarchs in Africa 15th-century emperors of Ethiopia Solomonic dynasty Year of birth unknown {{Ethiopia-hist-stub