Editing Lij Iyasu (section)

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{{short description|Uncrowned Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913 to 1916}}
{{Infobox royalty
| title        = [[Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles#Lij|Lij]]
| name         = Iyasu <br> {{lang|gez| ኢያሱ}}
| image        = Lidj Iyasu.jpg
| succession   = [[Emperor of Ethiopia]]
| reign        = 12 December 1913 – 27 September 1916
| predecessor  = [[Menelik II]]
| successor    = [[Zewditu]]
| spouse       = [[Seble Wongel Hailu]]
| dynasty      = [[Solomonic dynasty|House of Solomon]] (Wollo Branch)
| father       = [[Mikael of Wollo|Mikael Ali]]
| mother       = ''Woizero'' Shewaregga Menelik
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1895|2|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Dessie]], [[Wollo]], [[Ethiopian Empire]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1935|11|25|1895|2|4|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Addis Ababa]], [[Ethiopian Empire]]
| full name    = Kifle Yaqob (baptismal name)
| burial_date  = 
| burial_place = Compound of St Markos Church
| religion     = [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church|Ethiopian Orthodox]] ( conversion to [[Islam]])
}}
'''''Lij'' Iyasu''' ({{langx|gez|ልጅ ኢያሱ}}; 4 February 1895{{efn|The precise year of Iyasu's birth is not known. In the ''Chronicle of Abeto Iyasu and Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia'', the year is incompletely given as "18…"; in the same chapter, Iyasu is said to have been 12 years old in [[Ethiopian calendar|EC]] 1901 (or AD 1908/9). In his notes to this passage, Reidulf K. Molvaer notes, "He was 13 or 14 rather than 12 years old (the 'family tradition' of [[Haile Selassie|Teferi Mekonnin]] and [[Imru Haile Selassie|Imru Haile-Sellasie]] was that Iyasu was about three years younger than them.)" ''Prowess, Piety, and Politics: The Chronicle of Abeto Iyasu and Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia (1909–1930)'' (Koeln: Ruediger Koeppe, 1994), p. 314 and note. Molvaer notes that other traditions put the year of his birth in 1892 and 1897 (p. 558). The year "1887" given in the 1911 ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' is the EC date, not the Common Era; the author of the article confused the two.}} – 25 November 1935) was the designated [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] from 1913 to 1916. His baptismal name was '''Kifle Yaqob''' (ክፍለ ያዕቆብ ''kəflä y’aqob''). Ethiopian emperors traditionally chose their regnal name on the day they were crowned,{{efn|For instance, Tewodros II and Menelik II were respectively known as Kassa Hailu and Sahle Maryam before they were crowned.<ref>{{harvp|Henze|2000|pp=132–133}}</ref>}} and since he was never crowned, he is usually referred to as ''[[Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles#Lij|Lij]]'' Iyasu, "Lij" meaning child, especially one born of royal blood.{{efn|While sometimes misinterpreted as Iyasu V, ''Lij'' Iyasu was never referred to as "Iyasu V" or even as an emperor during his rule, either by Ethiopians or by foreigners. Thus, in the treaty of commerce signed between the United States and Ethiopia in June 1914, the ruler of Ethiopia is referred to as "His Royal Highness, Prince Lidj Yassou". [http://images.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/EFacs/1920v02/reference/frus.frus1920v02.i0010.pdf]}}