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Menelik II of Ethiopia

Menilek II , also spelled Menelik, original name Sahle Miriam , also spelled Sahlé Mariam , (born Aug. 17, 1844, Ankober, Shewa [Shoa], Ethiopia—died Dec. 12, 1913, Addis Ababa), king of Shewa (or Shoa; 1865–89), and emperor of Ethiopia (1889–1913). One of Ethiopia’s greatest rulers, he expanded the empire almost to its present-day borders, repelled an Italian invasion in 1896, and carried out a wide-ranging program of modernization .

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