Menelik I, in Ethiopian mythology, was the reputed first Emperor of Ethiopia. According to the Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynasty, so named because Menelik I was the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba.
- Occupation
- ruler
- Position held
- Emperor of Ethiopia
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Born
- 1000 BC
- Died
- 1000 BC
