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Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba is a figure from biblical and Quranic tradition who visited King Solomon. Ethiopian tradition, codified in the Kebra Nagast, holds that she bore Solomon a son, Menelik, founder of a royal line. This claim shaped the ideology of the Aksumite Empire and legitimised the Solomonic dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire from 1270.

Queen of Sheba
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Kingdom of Saba

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Queen of Sheba. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/queen-of-sheba
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