Wedem Arad (died 1314) was nəgusä nägäst (1299 – 1314) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the brother of Yagbe'u Seyon, and seized power from his nephews. Only one military action is recorded for this ruler. In the first year of his reign, one Sheikh Abu-Abdallah had gathered a large following, and proclaimed a jihad against Wedem Arad's realm.

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  • Wedem Arad (died 1314) was nəgusä nägäst (1299 – 1314) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the brother of Yagbe'u Seyon, and seized power from his nephews. Only one military action is recorded for this ruler. In the first year of his reign, one Sheikh Abu-Abdallah had gathered a large following, and proclaimed a jihad against Wedem Arad's realm. Wedem Arad sent a number of agents into Abu-Abdallah's camp, who were able to persuade most of his followers to defect; without sufficient manpower, Abu-Abdallah was forced to agree to a treaty with Wedem Arad, in return for providing "them with all their needs until they are completely satisfied". Taddesse Tamrat suggests this involved giving them land to settle on, and notes that on the edge of the territory of Shewa there is a locality known as "Abdalla", which might be that settlement. In 1306, Wedem Arad sent an embassy of 30 envoys to Europe seeking the "king of the Spains". Perhaps hearing of the Christians' successes against Al-Andalus in Iberia, Wedem Arad sought to negotiate a mutual defense pact with them against their common Muslim enemies. Whether or not the envoys reached their destination is unknown, but they did visit Rome and got as far as Avignon. Delayed on their way home, they spent some time in Genoa, where they were interviewed by the geographer Giovanni da Carignano. Giovanni's account of their country based on the interviews is lost, but was summarized by Jacobus Philippus Foresti da Bergamo in his Supplementum Chronicarum; this is the first text that associates the legendary figure of Prester John with Ethiopia. G.W.B. Huntingford speculates that the settlement of Tegulet first became the capital of Ethiopia during Wedem Arad's reign.
  • Wedem Arad (auch Wedem Raad) (* vermutlich vor 1250; † vermutlich 1314) war von 1299 bis 1314 Neguse Negest von Äthiopien. Wedem Arad war der achte Kaiser aus der seit 1270 in Äthiopien herrschenden Salomonischen Dynastie. Er war der zweite Sohn von Yekuno Amlak (auch Tesfa Iyessus), des ersten Kaisers aus dieser Dynastie. Wedem Arad folgte den nur kurz regierenden Söhnen seinen Bruders, Kaiser Yagbea Seyon, auf den Thron. Insgesamt ist über die Regentschaft von Kaiser Wedem Arad kaum etwas bekannt, da die äthiopische Geschichtsschreibung erst mit seinem Sohn und Nachfolger Amda Seyon begann. So ist nur ein Feldzug des Kaisers aus dem ersten Jahr seiner Regentschaft gegen den nomadisierenden muslimischen Scheich Abu-Abdallah überliefert. Dieser Scheich hatte zum Heiligen Krieg gegen den Kaiser aufgerufen. Abu-Abdallah wurde schließlich zur Tributzahlung verpflichtet und in der Gegend von Shewa angesiedelt. Über die Umstände des Todes von Kaiser Wedem Arad ist nichts bekannt.
  • Ouédem-Arad, roi d’Éthiopie de 1299 à 1314. Fils de Yékouno-Amlak, il monte sur le trône en 1299. Il envoie à son tour une somptueuse ambassade au sultan mamelouk bahrite du Caire Muhammad ben Qala'ûn pour obtenir du patriarcat copte un métropolite, mais n’obtient pas satisfaction bien qu’il soit en paix avec les musulmans de l’Ifat et que ceux-ci aient accepté d’être ses vassaux. A sa mort en 1314, son fils Amda Seyon Ier lui succède.
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  • 1299 – 1314
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  • Wedem Arad (died 1314) was nəgusä nägäst (1299 – 1314) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the brother of Yagbe'u Seyon, and seized power from his nephews. Only one military action is recorded for this ruler. In the first year of his reign, one Sheikh Abu-Abdallah had gathered a large following, and proclaimed a jihad against Wedem Arad's realm.
  • Wedem Arad (auch Wedem Raad) (* vermutlich vor 1250; † vermutlich 1314) war von 1299 bis 1314 Neguse Negest von Äthiopien. Wedem Arad war der achte Kaiser aus der seit 1270 in Äthiopien herrschenden Salomonischen Dynastie. Er war der zweite Sohn von Yekuno Amlak (auch Tesfa Iyessus), des ersten Kaisers aus dieser Dynastie. Wedem Arad folgte den nur kurz regierenden Söhnen seinen Bruders, Kaiser Yagbea Seyon, auf den Thron.
  • Ouédem-Arad, roi d’Éthiopie de 1299 à 1314. Fils de Yékouno-Amlak, il monte sur le trône en 1299. Il envoie à son tour une somptueuse ambassade au sultan mamelouk bahrite du Caire Muhammad ben Qala'ûn pour obtenir du patriarcat copte un métropolite, mais n’obtient pas satisfaction bien qu’il soit en paix avec les musulmans de l’Ifat et que ceux-ci aient accepté d’être ses vassaux. A sa mort en 1314, son fils Amda Seyon Ier lui succède.
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  • Wedem Arad
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