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Yeshaq (Bahr Negash)

d. 1578 · 16th century

Yeshaq was Bahr Negash, governor of the northern province of Medri Bahri in present-day Eritrea, in the mid-sixteenth century. He supported Emperor Gelawdewos against the Adal Sultanate but later rebelled and allied with the Ottomans of the Habesh Eyalet against the Ethiopian emperors. He was killed in 1578 in battle against the forces of Emperor Sarsa Dengel.

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