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Negus nagast
Negus nagast, meaning king of kings, was the title of the Aksumite and later Ethiopian monarchs. In the Aksumite Empire it signalled a federal structure in which tributary rulers acknowledged Aksumite suzerainty while keeping local authority. Comparable king-of-kings titles appear elsewhere on the site, such as the Gupta Maharajadhiraja, the Sasanian shahanshah and the Benin Oba's style as child of the king of kings.
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