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Negus
Royal title of Ethiopia, equivalent to "king" / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Negus (disambiguation).
Negus (Ge'ez: ንጉሥ, nəgueś [nɨgueɬ]; cf. Amharic: ነጋሲ nəgus [nɨgus]) is the word for "king" in the Ethiopian Semitic languages and a title[1] which was usually bestowed upon a regional ruler by the Negusa Nagast, or "king of kings,"[2] in pre-1974 Ethiopia.
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