query: position_held yonas
supports: Yonas or Jonah ( died May , 1813 ) was ngusä nägäst ( 18 August 1797 -- 4 January 1798 ) of Ethiopia . He was the son of Letezum , and the grandson of the Emperor Fasilides . According to E.A. Wallis Budge , Yonas was a forehead , proclaimed Emperor by Ras Isra'el of Begemder , and deposed by Gugsa , a chieftain of the Yejju Oromo . However , the Royal Chronicle records that he was proclaimed Emperor after the Emperor who controlled Gondar , Salomon III , had been defeated by the rebel Balambaras Asserat , who forced him to flee Gondar . However , during Yonas ' reign the realm was afflicted by a famine in which `` more men died than could be numbered . '' Yonas ' son Mafu died 7 November then his wife Esther , both apparently from this famine . Lacking any support or rationale for his rule , the major warlords of the time -- Ras Mare'ed , Dejazmach Hailu Eshte , Dejazmach Wolde Selassie , and Ras Guebra -- all successfully petitioned to Emperor Tekle Giyorgis to return from exile in Waldebba and become ruler once again . Upon learning of Tekle Giyorgis ' approach when he was still one day 's march away , Yonas fled to sanctuary in the Abuna 's palace . After months of hiding in the Abuna 's palace , Yonas became a potential pawn when Waheldu , the brother of Asserat and also in conflict with the major warlords , attempted to have Yonas brought to him and used as his own candidate for Emperor . Tekle Giyorgis managed to foil this plot by giving amnesty to Yonas , and had him and Yonas ' brother Goshu , `` dwell with him in friendship '' in the Royal Enclosure . By 1802 , he was a prisoner in Lasta . Henry Salt is reported to have met with his son Fasilidas in Adowa 16 September 1805 , and who `` seemed anxious to have a private conversation ( with Salt ) , but was prevented . '' Nathaniel Pearce reports that Yonas was living in exile in Gojjam at the time of his death , and died penniless `` without leaving sufficient even to purchase a coffin to receive ... ( his ) remains , or money enough for fettart or toscar . '' Ethiopia ('), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia"' (   , "yetiyoya Fdralaw Dmokirasyaw Rpebilk" ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With nearly 100 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria. It occupies a total area of , and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa. Sudan ("as-Sdn", ), also known as North Sudan and officially the Republic of the Sudan ("Jumhriyyat as-Sdn"), is a country in Northern Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea, Eritrea, and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. It is the third largest country in Africa. The River Nile divides the country into eastern and western halves. Before the Sudanese Civil War, South Sudan was part of Sudan but broke away in 2011. Its predominant religion is Islam. The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, is the former ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire. Its members claim patrilineal descent from King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba. Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem. Fasilides (Ge'ez  "Fsladas", modern "Fsledes"; 20 November 1603  18 October 1667), also known as Fasil or Basilide, was emperor of Ethiopia from 1632 to 18 October 1667, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Alam Sagad (Ge'ez   "lam Sagad", modern "lem Seged"), meaning "to whom the world bows". He was the son of Emperor Susenyos I and Empress Sultana Mogassa, born at Magazaz in Shewa before 10 November 1603. His paternal grandfather's name was also Fasilides. A landlocked state or landlocked country is a sovereign state entirely enclosed by land, or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas. There are currently 48 such countries, including four partially recognised states. Only two, Bolivia and Paraguay in South America, lie outside Afro-Eurasia (the Old World). Addis Ababa (' , "new flower" "Natural Spring(s)") or Addis Abeba (the spelling used by the official Ethiopian Mapping Authority), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It has a population of 3,384,569 according to the 2007 population census, with annual growth rate of 3.8%. This number has been increased from the originally published 2,738,248 figure and appears to be still largely underestimated. Susenyos I (also Sissinios, in Greek, Ge'ez  "ssinys"; throne name Malak Sagad III, Ge'ez  , "mal'ak sagad", Amh. "mel'k seged", "to whom the angel bows"; 1572  17 September 1632) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1606 to 1632. His father was "Abeto" (Prince) Fasilides, son of "Abeto" (Prince) Yakob, who was a son of Dawit II. As a result, while some authorities list Susenyos as a member of the Solomonic dynasty, others consider him, instead of his son, Fasilides, as the founder of the Gondar line of the dynasty (ultimately a subset, however, of the Solomonic dynasty). A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.
candidates: 3 emperor emperor of ethiopia king libya sovereign
answer: emperor of ethiopia