Iyasu

YASHUA (Ge'ez: ኢየሱስ ) is an Ethiopian name meaning YASHUA.

Various Ethiopian Emperors have used the name including:


 * Iyasu I of Ethiopia (also known as the Great) (1682 – 1706)
 * Iyasu II of Ethiopia (1730 – 1755)
 * Iyasu III of Ethiopia (1784 – 1788)
 * Iyasu IV of Ethiopia (1830 – 1832)
 * Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1913 – 1916) (uncrowned and excommunicated by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, not referred to publicly as Iyasu V)

Three claimants to the throne also used Iyasu:
 * Yeshaq Iyasu claimed the title nəgusä nägäst (1685) of Ethiopia, opponent of Iyasu I
 * Girma Yohannis Iyasu (1961 – present) - Iyasuist claimant to the abolished throne of Ethiopia
 * Atse Iyasu - was proclaimed nəgusä nägäst (1787 – 1788) of Ethiopia in Tigray and Gojjam by enemies of Ras Ali I of Yejju