The Office of Culture and Tourism of the Regional State of Amhara, where the monarch’s birthplace is located, in collaboration with three universities in the region, commemorates 150 years of his death with a remodeling of the enclosure and its surroundings, which includes shelters , accommodations and others.
The Emperor Tewodros II, one of the most named leaders of the nation’s history and founder of modern Ethiopia, was born in 1818 and committed suicide in April 1868 by refusing to yield to the British.
Tewodros was the first to establish a permanent professional army and put forward the principles for the establishment of a salary for governors and judges.
In addition, he worked to abolish the feudal system and create a new nobility of merit and his government is often placed as the end to the era ‘Zemene Mesafint’, era of the Princes.
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