Reputation
At the effort of Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopia received its first Abuna, or titular religious leader, from Egypt since the death of Yosab in 1804: Qerellos III (1816–1828), who made his residence in Antalo.
The British traveller Henry Salt described Selassie as "distinguished still more for his intrepidity and firmness than by the policy with which he has uniformly ruled the country under his command; having been successfully engaged in upwards of forty battles, and having evinced. on these occasions even too great a disregard of his own personal safety in action." Another British traveler by the name of Parkyns adds, “Wolde Selasie reigned for twenty-five years, and during this long period obtained and maintained for him self the character of a good and wise prince”.
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