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Holders of this title were figureheads and lacked Habesha advisors during the Era of Princes. (20[1])Vasco da Gama’s son died defending a holder of this title from an invasion led by Ahmad ibn Ibrahim of the Adal Sultanate. Holders of this title abandoned their nomadic court and commissioned Falasha artisans to create the city of Gondar. A 13th-century epic describes how the first holder of this title inadvertently took the (*) Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem. (10[1])This title’s last holder used a Lion of Judah symbol and was overthrown by the Derg. According (10[1])to the Kebra Negast, this title’s first holder was Menelik I. Haile Selassie was the last holder of, for 10 points, what title that ruled over a kingdom in the Horn of Africa? ■END■ (10[1])

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