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Haile Selassie
 
SYLLABICATION:Hai·le Se·las·sie
PRONUNCIATION:  hl s-ls, -läs
DATES:1892–1975
VARIANTS:Title of Ras Tafari Makonnen.
Emperor of Ethiopia (1930–1974). After the Italian invasion of his country (1936), he fled to England, returned to Ethiopia with Allied troops (1941), and was restored to the throne. He was deposed in a military coup (1974).
 
 
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