Rulers of Welayta
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List of Rulers of Welayta

A former kingdom and province located in southern present-day Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

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Tenure Incumbent Notes
c.1250 Foundation of Welayta
Welayta people
Wolayta is the name of an ethnic group and its former kingdom, located in southern Ethiopia. According to the most recent census , they number 1.7 million people or 2.31 percent of the country's population, of whom 289,707 are urban inhabitants...

 state
Damot dynasty
|Kawo Motole(Motolomi)
Wolaita Mala dynasty
|Dates and rulers not known Ended with the Oromo migrations
Tigray dynasty
c.1560 Mikael, Kawa  
16th century Girma, Kawa
17th century Gazenja, Kawa
(Gazenya)
17th century Addayo, Kawa
18th century Kote
Kotë
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, Kawa
18th century Libana, Kawa
???? to 1761 Tube, Kawo Died in office
1761 to 1800 Ogatto, Kawo
1800 to 1835 Amado
Amado
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, Kawo
1835 to 1845 Damota, Kawo
1845 to 1886 Gobe, Kawo
1886 to c.1890 Gaga, Kawo
1890 to October 1895 Tona, Kawo
Waylata conquered by Menelik II of Ethiopia and incorporated into Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

 1894
October 1895 to 1900 Tekle Haymanot
Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam
Tekle Haymanot Tessemma, also Adal Tessemma, Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and Tekle Haimanot of Gojjam, was an army commander and a member of the nobility of the Ethiopian Empire.- Biography :...

, Negus

Source

  • C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593–1646 (London: Hakluyt Society
    Hakluyt Society
    Founded in 1846, the Hakluyt Society is a registered charity based in London, England, which seeks to advance knowledge and education by the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material...

    , 1954), pp. lxv – lxvii.

See also

  • Monarchies of Ethiopia
    Monarchies of Ethiopia
    This is a list of Monarchies that existed throughout the history of Ethiopia. This list is divided into kingdoms that were subdivisions of Ethiopia, and kingdoms that were later conquered by Ethiopia...

  • Rulers and heads of state of Ethiopia
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