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Sarsa Dengel (
Ge'ez ሠረጸ ድንግል
śarṣa dingil,
Amh. serṣe dingil "Sprout of the Virgin",
1550 -
4 October 1597) was
nəgusä nägäst (throne name
Malak Sagad I,
Ge'ez መልአክ ሰገድ
mal'ak sagad, Amh.
mel'āk seged, "to whom the angel bows") (
1563 - 1597) of
Ethiopia, and a member of the
Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of
Menas and
Admas Mogasa.
He was elected king by the
Shewan commanders of the army and the Queen Mother. Upon his coming of age
Bahr negus Yeshaq, who had rebelled against his father, presented himself to Sarsa Dengel and made peace. However, Sarsa Dengel had to confront a number of other revolts: his cousin
Hamalmal in
1563, another cousin Fasil two years later. Yeshaq once again revolted with support of the
Ottoman Empire; Sarsa Dengel then marched to
Tigray in
1576, where he defeated and killed in battle the Bahr Negash and his allies,
Özdemir Pasha and Sultan
Muhammed IV of Harar.
Sarsa Dengel was the first emperor of Ethiopia to confront the encroachment of the
Oromo, who had defeated
Nur ibn Mujahid as he returned home from killing his uncle
Gelawdewos in battle. In his tenth
regnal year (
1573), campaigning in the south, he defeated the Oromo in a battle near
Lake Zway. He campaigned against them again in his 15th (
1578) and 25th (
1588) regnal years.
Sarsa Dengel campaigned against the
Falasha in
Semien in
1580, then again in
1585. He also campaigned against the
Agaw in
1581, and in 1585. He campaigned against the
Gambo who dwelled in the lands west of the
Chomen swamp in
1590. He made a punitive expedition against the
Ottoman Turks in 1588, in response to their raids in the northern provinces. Sarsa Dengel campaigned in
Ennarea twice, the first time in
1586, and the second time in 1597. On this second campaign, his Chronicle records, a group of monks tried to dissuade him from this expedition; failing that, they warned him not to eat fish from a certain river he'd pass. Despite their warning, when he passed by the river the monks warned him about, he ate fish taken from this river and grew sick and died.
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