Yonas

Yonas
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign18 August 1797 – 4 January 1798
PredecessorSalomon III
SuccessorTekle Giyorgis I
DiedMay 1813
Gojjam, Ethiopian Empire
DynastyHouse of Solomon
FatherLetezum
ReligionEthiopian Orthodox Tewahedo

Yonas (Ge'ez: ዮናስ; died May 1813) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 18 August 1797 to 4 January 1798, and a member of Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Letezum, and the grandson of the Emperor Fasilides.[1]

  1. ^ H. Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 446