father menas of ethiopia
Menas ( Ge ' ez  mns ) or Minas , throne name Admas Sagad I ( Ge ' ez   adms sagad , Amh . dms seged , `` to whom the horizon bows '' ) , ( ? -- 1 February 1563 ) was ngusä nägäst ( 1559 - February 1 , 1563 ) of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty . He was a brother of Gelawdewos . According to a genealogy collected by James Bruce , Menas ' father Lebna Dengel arranged Menas to be married to the daughter of Robel , governor of Bora and Selawe ; upon becoming empress she took the name Adimas Moas . They had two children , Fiqtor and Theodora . During Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al - Ghazi ' s invasion of Ethiopia , Menas had been captured but treated well as a valuable prisoner . Although the fate of prisoners of war at the time was to be castrated and enslaved , due to the intervention of Bati del Wambara , wife of Imam Ahmad Gragn , Menas escaped this mutilation , and was married to Bati del Wambara ' s daughter -- an act Whiteway describes as `` a unique act of clemency . '' This clemency came to an end in 1542 , when the Imam , desperate for help from his fellow Muslims , included Menas in an assortment of extravagant gifts to the sultan of Yemen in return for military aid . However , Imam Ahmad ' s son was later captured in the aftermath of the Battle of Wayna Daga , Gelawdewos used his prisoner to recover his brother Menas ; according to Pankhurst , `` when the royal family was reunited there were many days of celebrations . '' Menelik I ( called Bäynä Lkm in the " Kebra Nagast "; also named Ebna la - Hakim , Arabic : Ibn Al - Hakim , " Son of the Wise "), first Solomonic Emperor of Ethiopia , is traditionally believed to be the son of King ___MASK57___ of ancient Israel and Makeda , ancient Queen of Sheba . He is alleged to have ruled around 950 BC , according to traditional sources . Tradition credits him with bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia , following a visit to Jerusalem to meet his father upon reaching adulthood . Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One of the oldest cities in the world , Jerusalem was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately 2400 BCE ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of ___MASK5___ . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism , Christianity and Islam . The Federal Republic of Nigeria , commonly referred to as Nigeria , is a federal republic in West Africa , bordering Benin in the west , Chad and Cameroon in the east , and Niger in the north . Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean . It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory , where the capital , Abuja is located . Its largest cities ___MASK70___ : Lagos , Kano , Ibadan , Benin City and Port Harcourt . Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country . The Queen of Sheba is a Biblical figure . The tale of her visit to King ___MASK57___ has undergone extensive Jewish , Arabian , and Ethiopian elaborations , and has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in the Orient . Gelawdewos (" galwdws ", modern " gelwdws ", " ___MASK50___ "; 1521 / 1522  23 March 1559 ) was Emperor ( throne name Asnaf Sagad I (" anf sagad ", modern " nf seged ", " to whom the horizon bows " or " the remotest regions submit [ to him ]"; September 3 , 1540 - March 23 , 1559 ) of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty . He was a younger son of ___MASK45___ by Sabla Wengel . ___MASK45___ ( Ge ' ez :  " dwt "), also known as Wanag Segad (" wanag sagad ", ' to whom lions bow '), better known by his birth name Lebna Dengel ( Ge ' ez :   Lbnä Dngl ; 1501  September 2 , 1540 ), was " ngusä nägäst " ( 1508  1540 ) of the Ethiopian Empire . A member of the Solomonic dynasty , he was the son of Emperor Na ' od and Queen Na ' od Mogasa . The important victory over Adal leader Mahfuz may have given Dawit the appellation " Wanag Segad ", which is a combination of Ge ' ez and Harari terms . Ethiopia ('), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia "' (     , " yetiyoya Fdralaw Dmokirasyaw Rpebilk " ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa . It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast , Djibouti and Somalia to the east , Sudan and South Sudan to the west , and Kenya to the south . With nearly 100 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world , as well as the second - most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria . It occupies a total area of , and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa . The Solomonic dynasty , also known as the House of ___MASK57___ , is the former ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire . Its members claim patrilineal descent from King ___MASK57___ of Israel and the Queen of Sheba . Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to ___MASK57___ in Jerusalem .