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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Abyssinia, but the heir to the throne. The nominal ruler of the land is Empress Waizern Zauditu (Ras Taffari is her second cousin). She was proclaimed the Empress of Abyssinia in September, 1916, after her nephew, Lij Yasu, was deposed by public proclamation. The Empress was crowned at Addis Abbaba, capital of Abyssinia, Feb. 11, 1917. The Empress keeps herself very much in the background and the affairs of the State are thus largely in the hands of Ras Taffari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: A People's King | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

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