Damot

Damot was a medieval kingdom south of the Blue Nile in the western Ethiopian highlands, whose kings held court at Maldarede. Emperor Amda Seyon annexed it in 1316 or 1317 and deported some inhabitants, but apparently left its royal line in place.

The title motalami survived into the fifteenth century. By the late sixteenth century Macha Oromo under Mula'ata Lubas had overrun the region, and many people fled into Gojjam. A Christian province of Damot remained in the Ethiopian empire under a ras from Gojjam.