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- ↑ Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time (New York: Palgrave, 2000), p. 49.
- ↑ E. A. Walis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 276. Budge identifies the Patriarch as Cosmas II; however, Taddesse Tamrat (Church and State in Ethiopia [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972], pp. 40f) identifies him with Cosmas III.
- ↑ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State, pp. 35f.
- ↑ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State, p. 36.
- ↑ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State, p. 66n
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