Taytu Betul was Empress of Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913 and the third wife of Emperor Menelik II. An influential figure in the anti-colonial resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, she, along with her husband, founded the modern Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in 1886.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Emperor of Ethiopia
- Citizenship
- Ethiopia
- Born
- 1851
- Died
- February 11, 1918
