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Taytu Betul

1851 - 1918

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Taytu Betul (Amharic: ጣይቱ ብጡል Ṭaytu Bəṭul ; baptised as Wälättä Mikael; 1851 – 11 February 1918) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913 and the third wife of Emperor Menelik II. An influential figure in the anti-colonial resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, she, along with her husband, founded the modern Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in 1886. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Taytu Betul is the 9,832nd most popular politician (down from 9,189th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Ethiopia (down from 21st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Ethiopian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Taytu Betul ranks 9,832 out of 19,576. Before her are Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Alexander of Judaea, Emperor Kang of Jin, Otto Pérez Molina, Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York, and Cloelia. After her are Muhammad VI of Granada, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, John II, Duke of Brittany, Prince Koreyasu, Wifred II, Count of Barcelona, and Telerig of Bulgaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Taytu Betul ranks 46. Before her are Asa Griggs Candler, Otto Schott, Theodor Lipps, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Alois Jirásek, and Luis Ricardo Falero. After her are Roque Sáenz Peña, Edward Walter Maunder, Émile Boirac, Melvil Dewey, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, and David Starr Jordan. Among people deceased in 1918, Taytu Betul ranks 89. Before her are Christian Otto Mohr, Francesco Baracca, Charles Lecocq, Michel Zevaco, Wilhelm von Mirbach, and Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. After her are Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, Georges Ohnet, Eugene Botkin, Korbinian Brodmann, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, and Károly Khuen-Héderváry.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Taytu Betul ranks 31 out of 105. Before her are Abdiqasim Salad (1941), Gelawdewos (1522), Abdullah ibn Ja'far (650), Mulatu Teshome (1955), Tekle Giyorgis II (1836), and Kaleb of Axum (500). After her are Negasso Gidada (1943), Haile Gebrselassie (1973), Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel (1948), Zara Yaqob (1399), Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (1953), and Mamo Wolde (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Taytu Betul ranks 26. Before her are Hailemariam Desalegn (1965), Meles Zenawi (1955), Abdiqasim Salad (1941), Mulatu Teshome (1955), Tekle Giyorgis II (1836), and Kaleb of Axum (500). After her are Negasso Gidada (1943), Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (1953), Gudit (950), Sahle Dengel (1778), Tafari Benti (1921), and Tesfaye Gebre Kidan (1937).

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