Menelik II

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Menelik II (17 August 1844 – 12 December 1913) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until he died in 1913.

Menelik II Media

Seal of Menelik II
Menelik's campaigns 1879–89
Menelik's campaigns 1889–96
Menelik's campaigns 1897–1904
The Menelik Palace in Addis Ababa
Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in an 1891 map, showing national borders before the Battle of Adwa
A cannon used by Menelik at the Battle of Adwa on display at the National Museum of Ethiopia
Emperor Menelik II at the Battle of Adwa. Le Petit Journal, 1898
After the Treaty of Addis Ababa was signed in 1896, Europeans recognised the sovereignty of Ethiopia. Menelik then finalised signing treaties with Europeans to demarcate the border of modern Ethiopia by 1904.