query: father menas of ethiopia
supports: 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. Gelawdewos ("galwdws", modern "gelwdws", "Claudius"; 1521/1522  23 March 1559) was Emperor (throne name Asnaf Sagad I ("anf sagad", modern "nf seged", "to whom the horizon bows" or "the remotest regions submit [to him]"; September 3, 1540 - March 23, 1559) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a younger son of Dawit II by Sabla Wengel. Menas ( Ge'ez  mns ) or Minas , throne name Admas Sagad I ( Ge'ez   adms sagad , Amh . dms seged , `` to whom the horizon bows '' ) , ( ? -- 1 February 1563 ) was ngusä nägäst ( 1559 - February 1 , 1563 ) of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty . He was a brother of Gelawdewos . According to a genealogy collected by James Bruce , Menas ' father Lebna Dengel arranged Menas to be married to the daughter of Robel , governor of Bora and Selawe ; upon becoming empress she took the name Adimas Moas . They had two children , Fiqtor and Theodora . During Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al - Ghazi 's invasion of Ethiopia , Menas had been captured but treated well as a valuable prisoner . Although the fate of prisoners of war at the time was to be castrated and enslaved , due to the intervention of Bati del Wambara , wife of Imam Ahmad Gragn , Menas escaped this mutilation , and was married to Bati del Wambara 's daughter -- an act Whiteway describes as `` a unique act of clemency . '' This clemency came to an end in 1542 , when the Imam , desperate for help from his fellow Muslims , included Menas in an assortment of extravagant gifts to the sultan of Yemen in return for military aid . However , Imam Ahmad 's son was later captured in the aftermath of the Battle of Wayna Daga , Gelawdewos used his prisoner to recover his brother Menas ; according to Pankhurst , `` when the royal family was reunited there were many days of celebrations . '' The Queen of Sheba is a Biblical figure. The tale of her visit to King Solomon has undergone extensive Jewish, Arabian, and Ethiopian elaborations, and has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in the Orient. Menelik I (called Bäynä Lkm in the "Kebra Nagast"; also named Ebna la-Hakim, Arabic: Ibn Al-Hakim, "Son of the Wise"), first Solomonic Emperor of Ethiopia, is traditionally believed to be the son of King Solomon of ancient Israel and Makeda, ancient Queen of Sheba. He is alleged to have ruled around 950 BC, according to traditional sources. Tradition credits him with bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia, following a visit to Jerusalem to meet his father upon reaching adulthood. The Federal Republic of Nigeria , commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja is located. Its largest cities include: Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Benin City and Port Harcourt. Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country. Dawit II (Ge'ez:  "dwt"), also known as Wanag Segad ("wanag sagad", 'to whom lions bow'), better known by his birth name Lebna Dengel (Ge'ez:   Lbnä Dngl; 1501  September 2, 1540), was "ngusä nägäst" (15081540) of the Ethiopian Empire. A member of the Solomonic dynasty, he was the son of Emperor Na'od and Queen Na'od Mogasa. The important victory over Adal leader Mahfuz may have given Dawit the appellation "Wanag Segad", which is a combination of Ge'ez and Harari terms. Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. One of the oldest cities in the world, Jerusalem was named as ""Urusalima"" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, probably meaning "City of Shalem" after a Canaanite deity, during the early Canaanite period (approximately 2400 BCE). During the Israelite period, significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE (Iron Age II), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah. It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and 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.
candidates: claudius dawit ii include judah solomon
answer: dawit ii