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Zewditu

1876 - 1930

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Zewditu (Ge'ez: ዘውዲቱ, born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She was officially renamed Zewditu at the beginning of her reign as Empress of Ethiopia. Once she succeeded the throne after Lij Yasu in 1916, she was described as the first modern-era female head in the nation of Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zewditu has received more than 754,450 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Zewditu is the 788th most popular politician (up from 965th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Ethiopia and the 2nd most popular Ethiopian Politician.

Zewditu was the Empress of Ethiopia from 1916-1930. She was the last monarch to rule Ethiopia before it became a republic.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zewditu ranks 788 out of 19,576. Before her are Viktor Yushchenko, Philip the Arab, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Amr ibn Hishām, Sariputta, and Vladislaus II of Hungary. After her are William III of the Netherlands, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, İsmet İnönü, Enrico Dandolo, Robert the Bruce, and Tony Blair.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Zewditu ranks 6. Before her are Pope Pius XII, Jack London, Konrad Adenauer, Mata Hari, and Erich Raeder. After her are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, and Alexander I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1930, Zewditu ranks 5. Before her are Arthur Conan Doyle, Fridtjof Nansen, Alfred Wegener, and Ilya Repin. After her are Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Howard Taft, Allvar Gullstrand, Joan Gamper, Christiaan Eijkman, Fritz Pregl, and Miguel Primo de Rivera.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Zewditu ranks 3 out of 105. Before her are Abebe Bikila (1932), and Haile Selassie (1892). After her are Abraha (600), Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Onuphrius (320), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), and Sahle-Work Zewde (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Zewditu ranks 2. Before her are Haile Selassie (1892). After her are Menelik II (1844), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Menelik I (-954), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (1946), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), Sahle-Work Zewde (1950), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Tewodros II (1818), and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506).

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