Group
Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
The House of Solomon is the ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire.
Its members claim patrilineal descent from Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba.
Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem.
The dynasty, a bastion of Judaism and later of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, is considered to have ruled Ethiopia in the 1tenth century BCE.
Records of the dynasty's history are reported to have been maintained by the Ethiopian Orthodox monasteries to near antiquity; however, if such records existed, most are lost as a result of the destruction of Orthodox monasteries by the resurgent Judaic Judith I. Yekuno Amlak I re-establishes the dynasty, tracing his ancestry to the last Solomonic King of Axum, Dil Na'od.
The Dynasty reestablishes on August 10, 1270) when Yekuno Amlak overthrows the last ruler of the Zagwe dynasty.
Member Cities
- Addis Ababa > Adis Abeba Adis Abeba Ethiopia Location
- Aden `Adan Yemen Location
- Adigrat Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Adwa Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Agame Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Ahmedabad > Ahmadabad Gujarat India Location
- Anjadip Island Goa India Location
- Ankober Semien (North) Shewa Amhara Zone Ethiopia Location
- Antalo Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Arkiko (Arqiqo) Northern Red Sea Eritrea Location
- Awasa Southern NNP Region Ethiopia Location
- Bahir Dar Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Beijing (Peking) Beijing Shi (Peking) China Location
- Benin City Edo Nigeria Location
- Berbera Woqooyi Galbeed Somalia Location
- Cairo > Al-Qahirah Al-Qahirah Egypt Location
- Calicut Kerala India Location
- Cannanore Kerala India Location
- Cape Town (Kaapstad) Western Cape South Africa Location
- Chaul Maharashtra India Location
- Cochin > Kochi Kerala India Location
- Debarwa Debub Eritrea Location
- Debre Abbay Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Debre Birhan Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Debre Tabor Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Debre Werq Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Dese Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Diu Daman and Diu India Location
- Elmina Central Ghana Location
- Fremona Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Gondar > Gonder Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Hadibu `Adan Yemen Location
- Harar > Harer Harar Ethiopia Location
- Harer Harar Ethiopia Location
- Hint'alo Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Inda Silase Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Island of Mozambique > Ilha de Moçambique Nampula Mozambique Location
- Jiddah Makkah Saudi Arabia Location
- Kamaran Shabwah Yemen Location
- Kilwa Kisiwani Lindi Tanzania Location
- Kodungallur > Cranganore Kerala India Location
- Korem Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Lalibela Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Lisbon (Belém) Lisboa Portugal Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Madras > Chennai Tamil Nadu India Location
- Malaka > Melaka > Malacca Melaka Malaysia Location
- Malindi Coast Kenya Location
- Massawa (Mitsiwa) Northern Red Sea Eritrea Location
- Mek'ele Tigray Ethiopia Location
- Mombasa Coast Kenya Location
- Nova Goa > Panaji Goa India Location
- Ormus (?) > Hormuz Island Iran Location
- Ponnani Kerala India Location
- Praia Praia Cape Verde Location
- Qal'at al-Bahrain Bahrain Location
- Robe Oromiya Ethiopia Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Sannar > Sennar Al-Wusta Sudan Location
- Santarém Santarem Portugal Location
- Soba > Subah Al Jazirah Sudan Location
- Sohar Al-Batinah Oman Location
- Suez > As-Suways As-Suways Egypt Location
- Tabriz Azarbayjan-e Sharqi Iran Location
- Walaqa River Amhara Ethiopia Location
- Zanzibar Zanzibar Urban/West Tanzania Location
- Zeila (Zaila) Woqooyi Galbeed Somalia Location
- Ziway Oromiya Ethiopia Location