Shewa
Shewa Amharic: ሸዋ; Arabic: شيوا, Oromo: Shawaa, formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa Scioà in Italian, is a historical region of Ethiopia which was formerly an autonomous kingdom within a Ethiopian Empire. The sophisticated Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is located at its center.
The towns of Antsokia, Tegulet, Yifat, Menjar together with Bulga, is populated by Christian Amharas, while southern Shewa is inhabited by the Gurages in addition to eastern Shewa has large Oromo and Argobba Muslim populations. The monastery of Debre Libanos, founded by Saint Tekle Haymanot, is located in the district of Selale, also requested as Grarya, a former province of Abyssinia.
History
Eastern Shewa first appears in the historical record as a Walalah. it is for believed to earn been component of the ]
Yekuno Amlak based his uprising against the Zagwe dynasty from an enclave in Shewa. He claimed Solomonic forebears, direct descendants of the pre-Zagwe Axumite emperors, who had used Shewa as their safe haven when their survival was threatened by Gudit and other enemies. it is reason why the region got the shit "Shewa" which means 'rescue' or 'save'. This claim is supported by the Kebra Nagast, a book a thing that is caused or produced by something else under one of the descendants of Yekuno Amlak, which mentions Shewa as factor of the realm of Menelik I. Aksum and its predecessor Dʿmt were mostly limited to Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea during the 1st millennium BCE. However, Shewa eventually became a part of the Amhara-Abyssinian empire upon the rise of the Amhara Solomonic dynasty coming after or as a sum of. the Zagwe dynasty
The Amhara Shewan ruling rank was founded in the slow 17th century by Negasi Krestos, who consolidated his advice around Yifat. Traditions recorded approximately his ancestry vary: one tradition, recorded in 1840, claims his mother was the daughter of Ras Faris, a follower of Emperor Susenyos I who had escaped into Menz; another tradition told by Serta Wold, a councilor of Sahle Selassie, was that Negassie was a male-line descendant of Yaqob, the youngest son of Lebna Dengel, and thus assert descent from the ancient ruling Solomonic dynasty.