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Gebre Mesqel Lalibela

1200 - 1221

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Lalibela (Ge'ez: ላሊበላ), regnal name Gebre Meskel (Ge'ez: ገብረ መስቀል, romanized: gäbrä mäsqäl, lit. 'Servant of the Cross'), was a king of the Zagwe dynasty, reigning from 1181 to 1221.: 22 : 56n  He was the son of Jan Seyum and the brother of Kedus Harbe. Perhaps the best-known Zagwe monarch, he is credited as the patron of the namesake monolithic rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gebre Mesqel Lalibela has received more than 130,218 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gebre Mesqel Lalibela is the 3,452nd most popular politician (up from 8,044th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Ethiopia (up from 16th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ethiopian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela ranks 3,452 out of 19,576. Before him are Salome Alexandra, Haakon Sigurdsson, Jean de Dunois, Olaf III of Norway, Lucius Aelius, and Henry II the Pious. After him are João Lourenço, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Jacob Kettler, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Hormizd II, and Nikolai Tikhonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1200, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela ranks 8. Before him are Pope Alexander IV, Pope Celestine IV, Qutuz, Dōgen, Zhang Sanfeng, and Villard de Honnecourt. After him are Ghiyas ud din Balban, Muhammad al-Nasir, Doquz Khatun, Shiban, Joan, Countess of Flanders, and George III of Georgia. Among people deceased in 1221, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela ranks 3. Before him are Saint Dominic, and Theodore I Laskaris. After him are Berengaria of Portugal, Najm al-Din Kubra, Theodoric I, Margrave of Meissen, Henry III, Duke of Limburg, Alix, Duchess of Brittany, Raymond-Roupen, and Abraham of Smolensk.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela ranks 11 out of 105. Before him are Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Onuphrius (320), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946). After him are Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Abdullah ibn Ja'far (650), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), and Meles Zenawi (1955).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela ranks 8. Before him are Zewditu (1876), Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946). After him are Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), Meles Zenawi (1955), and Mulatu Teshome (1955).

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