Yolyos

Yolyos (Ge'ez: ዮልዮስ yōlyōs, "Julius") was an early 17th-century Ethiopian noble. He was appointed by Emperor Susenyos as governor of Ifat and Shewa, taking the traditional Ifat title of Walashma. According to Pedro Páez he took part in several attempts to overthrow Susenyos.[1][2] When Susenyos sentenced him to death for his part in these rebellions, Yolyos's wife, the daughter of Susenyos, begged her father for clemency. Yolyos was pardoned.[1]

His headquarters in Ifat was on an amba, a natural flat-topped mountain fortress, at Gefegef, which he used to defend against nearby Muslims of Qecheno.[3]

References
  1. Hassen, Mohammed (2015). The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: 1300-1700. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 295–296. ISBN 9781847011176. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  2. Cohen, Leonardo (2009). The Missionary Strategies of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1555-1632). Äthiopistische Forschungen. 70. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 56. ISBN 9783447058926. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  3. Pankhurst, Richard. The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century (Asmara, Eritrea: Red Sea Press, 1997), p.326


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