The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844-1913 |
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... Kasa was faithful for several years . In early 1852 , probably because of his continuing desire for more power , Kasa broke off relations with Ali , and there followed a few months of skirmishing . By September it became known that Ali ...
... Kasa was faithful for several years . In early 1852 , probably because of his continuing desire for more power , Kasa broke off relations with Ali , and there followed a few months of skirmishing . By September it became known that Ali ...
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... Kasa made no immediate claim to the throne , although in a letter to Napoleon III dated 8 August 1868 , he signed himself , ' Dejatch- match Kasa , Chief of the Governors of Ethiopia'.1 Of his competitors the most serious was his ...
... Kasa made no immediate claim to the throne , although in a letter to Napoleon III dated 8 August 1868 , he signed himself , ' Dejatch- match Kasa , Chief of the Governors of Ethiopia'.1 Of his competitors the most serious was his ...
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... Kasa's subject.1 Having ready access to the sea , which his rivals did not , Kasa sent a mission to Egypt and successfully obtained a new abun . He then decided that the religious primacy of Gondar should return to Aksum , the historic ...
... Kasa's subject.1 Having ready access to the sea , which his rivals did not , Kasa sent a mission to Egypt and successfully obtained a new abun . He then decided that the religious primacy of Gondar should return to Aksum , the historic ...
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