Talk:Tewodros II

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Needs an infobox, but otherwise a B.
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 02:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: This articles seems a little too.....eulogistic - by all accounts Theodore, though in many ways a reformer was also a bloodthirsty psychopath (Wald Gabr massacre, reduction of Gondar etc) - does nayone want to correct the imbalance in the article or shall I try?--Peteranthony 15:43, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Calling him a sociopath is reducing a complex individual to a stereotype; as Sven Rubenson has pointed out (in his King of Kings: Tewodros of Ethiopia), even the primary sources disagree about what the man said and did. To have achieved victory over the other warlords of the Zemene Mesafint required a certain degree of cold-bloodedness, but victorious generals often possess this quality. By the point in his life when multiple reliable sources are available, he was under a great deal of strain from having to repeatedly crush determined & implacable rebellions practically throughout his realm. That his behavior towards the end of his life was increasingly erratic shouldn't either be a great surrpise, nor should it be used as how he "typically" behaved throughout his life. -- llywrch 01:10, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: From the Wikipedia articles it's not clear which is the exact genealogical relationship among Tewodros, Peter Ustinov, Alexandre Benois, Eugene Lanceray, Zinaida Serebryakova, Anna Akhmatova and Leon Benois.
Are there more famous Tewodrosids besides Ustinov? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.20.17.84 (talk • contribs) on 16:33, 20 September 2006
:No. A footnote in the Peter Ustinov bio explains that, through an innocent mistake of Ustinov's childhood memories, it was thought that Ustinov descends from Tewodros II, but it now known to be a matter of mistaken identity. The claim that Ustinov is his descendant should be deleted, since it contradicts the documented ancestry given in Ustinov's article. FactStraight (talk) 13:29, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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message: The "Popular culture" section lists a couple of works by Marsden and Moorehead that, based on the respective descriptions, sound more like academic historical works than fiction. If so, I think these are better suited for the "Further reading" section.  However, I am not familiar with either book. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 23:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
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message: Can someone please unlock this page! This page have been closed for over a year now. 2A02:6680:1104:A889:3DB1:EAE:376A:2FC6 (talk) 22:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
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message: Can you please unblock the page? This wikipedia article is very short on the life of Emperor Tewedros. For example it don't mentioned the Tewodros was the first Emperor of Ethiopia to resist against the slave trade. And he freed many slaves 2A02:6680:1104:A889:9D7A:3FA8:3BEF:6F6 (talk) 16:02, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
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message: according to the The Ethiopian Chronicle Tewdros mother was from a noble family in Gondar. it is only Hormuzd Rassam that wrote that his mother was from Amhara sayint. 213.137.71.45 (talk) 20:22, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take a look at some sources when i have more time. Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 14:26, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
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