Nebahne Yohannes

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Nebahne Yohannes claimed the imperial title

Tewoflos
.

According to

Hamasien but managed to escape to his kindred Oromo where he raised an army. Bruce also writes that the decisive battle was fought at Yebaba on 28 March 1709; although the ultimate fate of Nebahne Yohannes is unknown, Tige and his two sons were killed by a peasant who afterwards presented their heads to Emperor Tewoflos.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 435.
  2. ^ Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805 edition), vol. 4 pp. 18–20