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Personal Names (PN) Terminology Resource (Getty Research Institute)

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Preferred term

Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975  

Synonym(s)

  • Ras Tafari, emperor of Ethiopia
  • Tafari, Lij
  • Tafari, Ras, emperor of Ethiopia

Scope note

  • name at birth Lij Tafari; became emperor (1930) and changed name to Haile Selassie (i.e., Might of the Trinity); deposed 1974

Notation

  • 212380

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVN-VC06VPQW-8

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