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'''Amda Seyon I''', also known as '''Amda Tsiyon I'''{{refn|group=note|other variations '''Amde Tsiyon''',<ref>{{cite book |last=Vingograd |first=A.G |author-link= |date=2020 |title=King Solomon: Rome and Ethiopia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqUBEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |location= |publisher=WP IPGEB |page=117 |isbn=}}
</ref> '''Amda-Tseyon''',<ref>{{cite book |last= Bahru Zewde|title= A History of Modern Ethiopia|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderne00bahr/page/8/mode/2up|url-access= registration|year= 2001|edition=second|publisher= James Currey|location= Oxford|isbn=0-85255-786-8|page=8}}</ref> '''Amda Tsion'''<ref>{{cite book |last=Reid |first=Richard J. |author-link= |date=2012 |title=Warfare in African History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FkLhwtbgRoC&pg=PA53|location= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=53 |isbn=9780521195102}}</ref>}} ({{lang-gez|ዐምደ ፡ ጽዮን}} {{transl|gez|ʿamda ṣiyōn}}, {{lang-am|አምደ ፅዮን}} {{transl|am|āmde ṣiyōn}}, "Pillar of Zion"),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amda-Seyon-I|title = Amda Seyon I | Biography & Facts | Britannica}}</ref> throne name '''Gebre Mesqel''' (ገብረ መስቀል {{transl|gez|gäbrä mäsḳal}}, "Servant of the Cross"), was [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] from 1314 to 1344 and a member of the [[Solomonic dynasty]].<ref name=Brit/>
He is best known in his chronicles as a heroic warrior against the Muslims, and is sometimes considered to have been the founder of the Ethiopian Empire. Most of his wars were against the Muslim sultanates to the southeast, which he was able to fight and always defeat, and substantially enlarge his kingdom by gradually incorporating a number of neighboring states.<ref name=Brit/>
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