Editing Lij Iyasu (section)

==Early life and ancestry==
''Lij'' Iyasu was born on 4 February 1895 in the city of [[Dessie]], in the [[Wollo]] province of Ethiopia. Iyasu’s father was a Muslim ruler of [[Wollo]],  his mother ''Woizero'' ("Lady") Shoaregga, was a Shewan [[Amhara people|Amhara]] and the eldest daughter of Emperor [[Menelik II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ficquet |first1=Éloi |title=The Life and Times of Lïj Iyasu of Ethiopia |date=2014 |publisher=Lit Verlag |pages=4 |isbn=978-3-643-90476-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMj7AgAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/34381774 | title=Understanding Lïj Iyasu through his Forefathers: The Mammedoch Imam-s of Wello | last1=Ficquet | first1=Eloi }}</ref> Iyasu's father was [[Ras (title)|''Ras'']] [[Mikael of Wollo|Mikael]], Governor of Wollo and longstanding friend of Menelik. Mikael had been born ''Mohammed Ali'' and was a Muslim until 1875, when he converted to [[Christianity]] by order of Yohannes IV in Boru meda council in order to stay in power.  <ref>{{harvp|Marcus|1995|p=58}}</ref>