Zewditu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zewditu

Empress Regnant of Ethiopia

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1876

Place of Birth: Ejersa Goro, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Date of Death: 02-Apr-1930

Profession: emperor, politician

Nationality: Ethiopia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Zewditu (also spelled Zawditu or Zauditu or Zäwditu; Ge'ez: ????; born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930.
The first female head of an internationally recognized country in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the first empress regnant of the Ethiopian Empire, her reign was noted for the reforms of her Regent and designated heir Ras Tafari Makonnen (who succeeded her as Emperor Haile Selassie I), about which she was at best ambivalent and often stridently opposed, due to her staunch conservatism and strong religious devotion.
She was also the most recent empress regnant in world history.