Saba Nol

Saba Nol, called Weluda Ityopya in the Ge'ez Life of Ewostatewos, was a Christian king of Noba, the Nubian land south of the Fifth Nile Cataract, remembered only through Ethiopian hagiography.

Around 1337 he received the exiled Ethiopian monk Ewostatewos while facing a great revolt, and the hagiography credits the saint's prayers with his victory over the rebels. The gloss explaining his Arabic name as Ge'ez for son of Ethiopia may be a copyist's invention, and modern scholars suggest he could be a memory of the Makurian king Siti.