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.
