HERE IS THE REAL QUEEN: THE MOST EFFECTIVE FEMALE MILITARY STRATEGIST OF ALL TIME, EMPRESS TAYITU BITUL OF ETHIOPIA 

"I am a woman. I do not like war. However, I would rather die rather than accepting your deal.... Don't ever think that we are not willing to sacrifice our comfort and die for our country. Giving ones life for the county is an honorable death." - Empress Taitu Betul, a verse taken from the book 'Emperor Menelik' by Paulos Gnogno.

 Empress Taytu Betul

c.1851–1918 Itege (Empress) Taytu Betul of Ethiopia, (c.1851-1918) was married to Emperor Menelik II, who is said to have been her equal and partner as theirs was not only a love marriage, but a political alliance as well. As a young girl, she received an education, something that not a lot of Ethiopian women were privileged enough to receive at the time.

She founded Addis Ababa and made it the capital of the empire. She also established and managed businesses such as Addis Ababa’s first modern hotel: Itege Hotel, whose clients included Ethiopian nobility and even Menelik II himself to show support for his queen wife. She established a wool factory and a candle factory with help from Turkish and Indian experts to pave the way for her empire’s industrialization. She also set up Ethiopia’s first domestic financial institution to modernize Ethiopia’s economy through access to financing and thus strengthen commerce.

Itege Taytu -the light of Ethiopia- shone at her brightest when the Italians tried to make Ethiopia their colony.

Since Tatyu and Menelik II played bad cop – good cop respectively when it came to the empire’s issues, it was clearly time for bad cop antics.

Itege Taytu was the bad cop in this empire.

Itege Taytu was of great importance to the war effort against Italy. She was the receiver and analyzer of intelligence from spies, which was of crucial importance to the war effort.

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