Classic DACB Collection

All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.

Walatta-Wahed

Alternate Names: Wälättä-Wahed
1200s-1300s
Orthodox Church
Ethiopia

Wälättä-Wahed (perhaps fl. late 13th - early 14th century A.D.), was the baptismal name given by St. Täklä-Haymanot to the wife of Käfär-Wedem, the governor of Adamo, whom the saint baptized together with his family.

Richard K. P. Pankhurst


Bibliography

E. A. Wallis Budge, The Life and Miracles of Takla Haymânôt (London, 1906), 110.


This article is reproduced, with permission, from The Dictionary of Ethiopian Biography, Vol. 1 ‘From Early Times to the End of the Zagwé Dynasty c. 1270 A.D.,’ copyright © 1975, edited by Belaynesh Michael, S. Chojnacki and Richard Pankhurst, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All rights reserved.