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The Dawro are a people of southern Ethiopia, also known as the Omete. They speak the Dawragna language. During the nineteenth century, the Dawro lived in an independent state known as the Kingdom of Dawro. In 2000, the Dawro Zone was split off from the former Semien Omo Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region.
The history of Ethiopian diaspora rooted during the start of diplomatic relations between the government of Ethiopia and the US government in 1903. The US sent a delegation, the Skinner Mission, to Ethiopia by which Emperor Menelik II signed trade deals with the US, while expressing his interest of sending students to the US. The first student ...
Although the military expansion of the Oromo continued, many Oromo groups started to settle in Ethiopian territory and developed into a political power, which was used by the different secular and ecclesiastical groupings. By the late 18th century, they were taking an active part in the political formation of the Ethiopian state.
Nishi Makoto 2005: Making and Unmaking of the National-State and Ethnicity in Modern Ethiopia: a Study on the History of the Silte People. African Study Monographs. Supplementary Issue 29. pp. 157–68 online version; Dinberu Alamu et al. 1987 (E.C.): Gogot. Yegurage biherasab tarik, bahilinna qwanqwa, Walqite (in Amharic).
The Karrayyu are an Oromo people clan inhabiting the Awash Valley banks of Abadir and Merti area in central Ethiopia. [1] They are pastoralists. [2] Karrayyu neighbor the Afar and Argobba people. [3] It is believed the extinct Harla ethnicity were assimilated into Karrayyu Oromo in eastern Shewa. [4] [5] [6]
The Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Day is celebrated on 8 December coinciding the adoption of the 1994 Constitutional Assembly.Since 2006, the holiday is celebrated, adorned by festivals participating the country's eighty ethnic groups gathering in every cities and dancing with their music and traditional attire to demonstrate unity and diversity.
Abba Bahrey (Ge'ez: ባሕርይ bāḥriy, "pearl") was a late 16th-century Ethiopian monk, historian, and ethnographer, from the southern region of Gamo. [1] He is best known for his 1593 work on the history of the Oromo and their migrations in the 16th century, the "History of the Galla" ("ዜናሁ ፡ ለጋላ" zēnāhū lagāllā). [2]
Due to the wars between the Ifat Sultanate and Ethiopia, the region of Ifat was incorporated into Ethiopia having been an integral part of the empire for over a century since early medieval times. [20] [21] During this period of incorporation, large sections of the local Argobba population embraced Christianity. [22]