Zewditu I of Ethiopia (born 1876)

Zewditu

Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930

Zewditu was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She was officially renamed Zewditu at the beginning of her reign as Empress of Ethiopia. Once she succeeded the throne after Lij Yasu in 1916, she was described as the first modern-era female head of a nation in…