Fasilides or Basilides (throne name `Alam Sagad), b at Magazaz, Shewa, in 1603 before 10 November, was nəgusä nägäst (1632 - October 18, 1667) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. He was the son of Sissinios and Empress Sultana Mogassa. Heir apparent 14 June 1624. The Emperor (Geez ንጉሠ ነገሥት, , King of Kings) of Ethiopia was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. ... See also: 1632 (novel) Events February 22 - Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe November 8 - Wladyslaw IV Waza elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Zygmunt III Waza death November 16 - Battle of Lützen... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... // Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... The Solomonid dynasty is the traditional royal house of Ethiopia, claming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said to have given birth to the traditional first king Menelik I after her Biblically-described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem. ... Sissinios (throne name Malak Sagad III) was negus negust (1607 - September 7, 1632) of Ethiopia. ...

He was proclaimed Emperor in 1630 during a revolt led by Sersa Krestos, but did not actually reach the throne until his father abdicated in 1632. Fasilides immediately acted to restore the power of the traditional Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He confiscated the lands of the Jesuits at Dankaz and elsewhere in the empire, and relegated them once again to Fremona. Events February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists. ... The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia that was part of the Coptic Church until it was granted its own Patriarch by Cyril VI, the Coptic Pope, in 1959. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Fremona was a town in northern Ethiopia, located in the modern Region of Tigray. ...

He requested a new abuna from the Patriarch of Alexandria, restoring the relationship that had been allowed to lapse. Abuna is the title of the metropolitan bishop or head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. ... The Patriarch of Alexandria is the bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. ...

When he heard that the Portuguese bombarded Mombasa, Fasilides assumed that Alfonso Mendez, the Roman Catholic prelate, was behind the act, and banished the remaining Jesuits from his lands. Mendez and most of his followers made their way back to Goa, being robbed or held in prison several times on the way. In 1665, he ordered the "Books of the Franks" -- the remaining religious writings of the Catholics -- burnt. Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya. ... The Roman Catholic Church (commonly known as the Catholic Church) is the Christian Church which is led by the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, currently His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that it is the one holy catholic and apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ. ... A prelate is a member of the clergy who either has ordinary jurisdiction over a group of people or ranks in precedence with ordinaries. ... For other uses, see Goa (disambiguation). ... Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ...

He founded what became the city of Gondar in 1636 and established it as capital. Gondar (less commonly spelled Gonder) was the old imperial capital of Ethiopia and the historic Begemder province, now part of the Amhara region. ... Events February 24 - King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island to build ships or as galley rowers March 26 - Utrecht University founded in The Netherlands. ...

Fasilides campaigned against the restive Agaw in 1637, and for the rest of his reign he was occupied either with repelling Oromo raids into his realm, or punitive expeditionas against the Agaw. The Agaw are a people of Ethiopia. ... Events February 3 - Tulipmania collapses in Netherlands by government order February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as Fermats last theorem. ... The Oromo, sometimes called Galla (this usage has now become pejorative, but was widely used into the 20th century) are an African ethnic group found in Ethiopia and to a lesser extent Kenya. ...

Fasilides dispatched an embassy to India in 1664-5 to congratulate Aurangzeb upon his accession to the throne of the Mughal Empire. Aurangzeb (from Persian, اورنگ‌زیب meaning befitting the throne),(November 3, 1618 – March 3, 1707, also known as Alamgir I, was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1658 until 1707. ... Extent of Mughal empire in the late 1600s: the Mughals ruled all but the southern tip of the subcontinent. ...

In 1666, after his son Dawit rebelled, Fasilides incarcerated him at Wehni, reviving the ancient practice of confining troublesome members of the Imperial family to a mountaintop, as they had once been confined at Amba Geshen. Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ... Wehni is the name of one of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia were interned, usually for life. ... Amba Geshen is the name of a mountain in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, northwest of Dessie. ...

Fasilides died on October 18, 1667 at Azazo, 5 miles south of Gondar. His body was interred at St. Stephen's Monastery on Daga Island, located in Lake Tana. When Nathaniel T. Kenney was shown Fasilides' remains, a smaller mummy also shared the coffin. A monk told Kenney that it was Fasilides' seven-year-old son Isur, who had been smothered in a crush of people who had come to pay the new king homage.¹ Lake Tana from space, April 1991 Lake Tana (also spelled Tana; older spellings include Tsana and Dambea) is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia. ...

References

1. Nathaniel T. Kenney, "Ethiopian Adventure", National Geographic, 127 (1965), p.557.