1) Former country in Africa 
Damot was a medieval kingdom in what is now Ethiopia, and neighbour to the Ethiopian Empire. Originally located south of the Abay and west of the Muger River, under the pressure of Oromo attacks the rulers were forced to resettle north of the Abay in southern Gojjam between 1574 and 1606. Its earliest mention is in the Gadla or hagiography of the ...