Newaya Maryam

Newaya Maryam (throne name Wedem Asfare or Gemma Asfare) was nəgusä nägäst (1372–1382) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the oldest son of Newaya Krestos.

During his reign, Haqq ad-Din II of the Walasma dynasty gained control of the kingdom of Ifat on the southeastern frontier of Ethiopia in 1376, and began raids against the Empire.^[1] According to E. A. Wallis Budge, the Royal Chronicles state that "little was known about" Newaya Maryam, and he died without issue.^[2] He was buried at Asar, but his descendant Emperor Baeda Maryam had his body re-interred at the church of Atronsa Maryam.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 74.
2. ^ E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 300.
3. ^ "Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 28 January 2008)

Preceded by Newaya Krestos

Emperor of Ethiopia

Succeeded by Dawit I

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Name	Maryam, Newaya
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Date of death	1382
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