Yonas of Ethiopia

Yonas or Jonah (died May, 1813) was "IPA|nəgusä nägäst" (18 August 1797 – 4 January 1798) of Ethiopia. He was the son of Letezum.

He was a figurehead, proclaimed Emperor by Ras Isra'el of Begemder, and deposed by Gugsa, a chieftain of the Yejju Oromo. [Ref Ethiopia|WallisBudge-1928|pages=479] By 1802, he was a prisoner in Lasta. [H. Weld Blundell, "The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840" (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 471] Nathaniel Pearce reports that he was living in exile in Gojjam at the time of his death, and died penniless "without leaving sufficient even to purchase a coffin to receive ... [his] remains, or money enough for "fettart" or "toscar"." [Ref Ethiopia|Pearce|pages=vol. 1, pp. 124f Pearce heard of Yonas' death on 7 June, but did not record the exact date it occurred.]

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