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Haile Selassie
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Hai·le Se·las·sie  (hl s-ls, -läs) Title of Ras Tafari Makonnen. 1892-1975.
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).
Haile Selassie [ˈhaɪlɪ səˈlæsɪ]
n
(Biographies / Haile Selassie (1892-1975) M, Ethiopian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) title of Ras Tafari Makonnen. 1892-1975, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-36; 1941-74). During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-41), he lived in exile in England. He was a prominent figure in the Pan-African movement: deposed 1974
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Noun1.Haile Selassie - emperor of EthiopiaHaile Selassie - emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975)
Ras Tafari, Ras Tafari Makonnen
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His words were soon forgotten, but the question of the crowns came to the fore again in 1924 at the time of the state visit to Britain of the then Ethiopian regent, Tafari Makonnen (the future Emperor Haile Selassie).
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CHOSEN FEW OF AFRICA RASTAFARIANISM was founded by Tafari Makonnen, later known as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, in 1930.
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At his coronation on November 2, 1930, Negus Tafari Makonnen son of Ras Makonnen of Harare was crowned emperor of Ethiopia and earned the supreme rank of Negusa Nagast (King of Kings), to which he appended "his Christian baptismal name, Haile Selassie.
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