Zewditu
Zewditu (Ge'ez: ዘውዲቱ, born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930. The first female head of an internationally recognized country in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the first and only empress regnant of the Ethiopian Empire, her reign was noted for the reforms of her Regent and designated heir Ras Tafari Makonnen (who succeeded her as Emperor Haile Selassie I), about which she was at best ambivalent and often stridently opposed, due to her staunch conservatism and strong religious devotion. She is the most recent empress regnant, as well as the last female Ethiopian head of state until the 2018 election of Sahle-Work Zewde as president.
| Zewditu ዘውዲቱ | |
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| Empress of Ethiopia | |
| Reign | 27 September 1916 – 2 April 1930 |
| Coronation | 11 February 1917 |
| Predecessor | Lij Iyasu |
| Successor | Haile Selassie I |
| Regent | Ras Tafari Makonnen |
| Born | 29 April 1876 Werrehimenu, Wollo, Ethiopian Empire |
| Died | 2 April 1930 (aged 53) Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire |
| Spouse | Araya Selassie Yohannes (1882–1888) Gwangul Zegeye Wube Atnaf Seged Gugsa Welle (1900–1930) |
| Dynasty | House of Solomon (Shewan Branch) |
| Father | Menelik II |
| Mother | Weyziro Abechi |
| Religion | Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo |
| Styles of Zewditu I of Ethiopia | |
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