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The Oromo expansions or the Oromo invasions [3] [4] (in older historiography, Galla invasions [5] [6] [7]), were a series of expansions in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Oromo. Prior to their great expansion in the 16th century, the Oromo inhabited only the area of what is now modern-day southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya . [ 1 ]
Oromo people have governed themselves in accordance with the Gadaa system long before the 16th century. The system regulates the political, economic, social and religious activities of the community. [95] Oromo were traditionally a culturally homogeneous society with genealogical ties. [96]
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]
The Macha came in the second half of the 16th Century as part of the general expansion of the Oromo in the area south of the Blue Nile.The Ethiopian monk Bahrey most important chronicler of the Oromo hikes called the Macha and Tulama as subgroups of the Borana and mentions various clans and lineages of Macha [citation needed].
The Sultanate of Arababni (also known as Arbabni or Arabini) was an Oromo Muslim sultanate located in what is now the Arsi Zone of Ethiopia.Founded around the 12th - 16th century, it was the smallest of the Muslim kingdoms described by the Muslim geographers al-Umari and al-Makrizi.
However, both the Christian and Muslim regions of Ethiopia were significantly weakened by the war; this has been suggested as a possible factor of the Oromo migrations of the 16th century. [17] From political, religious and cultural perspectives, the mid-16th century signifies the shift from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. [18] [1]
In the mid-17th century, the Oromo people collectively began expanding from their homeland towards the southern Somali coast at a time when the Ajurans were at the height of their power. [70] The Garen rulers conducted several military expeditions known as the Gaal Madow Wars on the Oromo invaders, converting those that were captured to Islam.
The Oromo partially assimilated the Yejju and called them by the name of “warra sheik”. Due to their native origin, the yejju mostly spoke Amharic and adapted themselves better than the rest of the Oromo clans in Wollo to the traditional social and political structures of Christian Ethiopia. [3] [4] [5]