Zemene Mesafint

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The Zemene Mesafint (Ge'ez: ዘመነ ፡ መሳፍንት) variously translated "Era of Judges", "Era of the Princes", "Age of Princes", etc.; taken from the biblical Book of Judges) was a period in Ethiopian history between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries when the country was de facto divided within itself into several regions with no effective central authority.

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