Who was the queen of sheeba ?

Question

Who was the queen of sheeba ?

Answer 1

She is the wiset Woman in the world before she had died. Known to the Ethiopian people as Makeda (Ge'ez: ማክዳ mākidā, which, in Ethiopic languages, means "pillow"), she has been called a variety of names by different peoples in different times. In Islamic tradition she was Bilqis. To King Solomon of Israel she was the Queen of Sheba. The Roman historian Josephus calls her Nicaula. She supposedly lived in the 10th century BC.

Answer 2

2nd cousin on my mother's side......

Answer 3

The Queen of Sheba was the ruler of the ancient kingdom of Sheba. The actual location of the historical kingdom may have included both Ethiopia and Yemen.

Born: c. 10th century B.C.

Birthplace: Sheba (now Yemen or Ethiopia)

Died: c. 10th century B.C.

Best Known As: The wealthy queen who tested Solomon

The Queen of Sheba is best known for a story in the Bible's book of Kings: at the head of a caravan of riches, she visits Israel's King Solomon to test his legendary wisdom. After Solomon successfully answers her riddles, the queen showers him with gifts. According to Ethiopian tradition the queen returned to Sheba and bore a son by Solomon, Menelik I, who was the beginning of the Ethiopian royal dynasty.

Little has been verified about the Queen of Sheba's life - in fact, even such basic details as her given name and the exact location of her kingdom remain uncertain. Tradition places her date of birth in the latter half of the 11th century BCE and her death in approximately 955 BCE; although her kingdom is referred to as both to the south and to the east of Israel, scholars generally believe her to have ruled an area in northern Africa roughly equivalent to modern-day Ethiopia, a country which claims her the progenitor of their long-ruling Solomonic dynasty.

The Queen's 10th century BCE visit to the grand court of Solomon, King of Israel and son of the legendary Goliathslayer David, however, is well-attested in three major ancient sources: the Biblical Old Testament, the Islamic Qu'ran, and the Ethiopian Kebra Nagast (Glory of the Kings). These three perspectives on the Queen meld to create a picture of one of the relatively rare, powerful female monarchs of the ancient world.

Answer 4

Obviously a woman who ruled sheeba...