Oromo expansions, also known as the Oromo migrations or the Oromo invasions (in older historiography, Galla invasions), were a series of expansions in...

000,000. The Oromo were originally nomadic, semi-pastoralist people who later would conquer large swaths of land during their expansions. After the settlement...

The Oromo conflict is a protracted conflict between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government. The Oromo Liberation Front formed to...

emperor Susenyos I relied on Oromo support to gain power and married an Oromo woman. While initial relations between the Oromo and Amhara were cordial, conflict...

located in or around Grarya and associated with Bulga prior to the Oromo expansion, after which it became a awrajja, or sub-province, of Shewa. The region...

argue that his focus on northern campaigns instead of addressing the Oromo expansion in the south ultimately led to the decline of the Ethiopian Empire...

Oromia (Oromo: Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. Under Article 49 of Ethiopian Constitution, the capital...

The Oromo Liberation Front (Oromo: Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, abbreviated: ABO; English abbreviation: OLF) is an Oromo nationalist political party formed...

Menelik's borders." Shewan expansion had started before Menelik, as rulers of the region had started a southward thrust against the Oromo in the early part of...

chiefly inhabit by Christians Amhara. The Jihad of Ahmad Gran and the Oromo expansion latter on brought a significant cultural change in /Wollo. A province...

Christian rulers maintained their rule of the province, despite the Oromo expansion that took place later in the 16th century. Østebø, Terje (October 2020)...

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 2014–2016 Oromo protests were a series of protests and resistance first sparked on 25 April 2014. The initial actions were taken in opposition to...

OLA insurgency is an armed conflict between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which split from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in 2018, and the Ethiopian...

Bale (Afaan Oromo: Baalee; Amharic: ባሌ), also known as Bali, is the name of a former region located in the southeastern part of modern Ethiopia. It bordered...

century, some parts of the Hadiya region was overrun by the Oromo expansion, thus, the Arsi Oromo today claim Hadiya ancestry. However the Hadiya Muslim cluster...

diminished to the present area because of different factors among which the Oromo expansion and challenges from rival people and states were the main ones. In...

Press. Lamphear, John. 1988. "The People of the Grey Bull: The Origin and Expansion of the Turkana." The Journal of African History 29(1):32–33. doi:10...

ancient Harla people including Silt'e and Harari people prior to the Oromo expansions of the sixteenth century. In the thirteenth century, Wolane were historically...

ancient Harla people alongside Wolane and Harari people prior to the Oromo expansions of the sixteenth century. In the 1600s their leader Garad of Seba Hadiya...

mid-seventeenth century and after the scene of many conflicts during the age of Oromo expansion, was gradually becoming stabilized. Along that frontier there evolved...

a living language, but there is a revival movement) Oromo people Boorana Barento Orma Waata (Oromo-speaking) Konso people Dirasha people, who speak Dirasha...

The Yejju Oromo, also historically known as the Yajju, Edjow or Edjou Galla, are a sub-clan of the Barento branch of Oromo people. They are one of the...

mid-18th and mid-19th centuries when the country was ruled by a class of Oromo elite noblemen who replaced Habesha nobility in their courts, making the...

Amélie; Hirsch, Bertrand (2020). "The Muslim-Christian Wars and the Oromo Expansion: Transformations at the End of the Middle Ages (ca. 1500–ca. 1560)"...

fought between the forces of Adal Sultanate led by Nur ibn Mujahid, and Oromo of Gada Michelle in 1559. Nur and his troops were returning from a victory...

Addis Ababa (/ˌædɪs ˈæbəbə/; Oromo: Finfinnee, lit. 'fountain of hot mineral water', Amharic: አዲስ አበባ, lit. 'new flower' [adˈdis ˈabəba] ) is the capital...

html#et_01_02"". memory.loc.gov. Retrieved 31 December 2021. "Oromo: Migration and Expansion: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries". Cohen L (2009). The Missionary...

those of the western Oromo (non-Shoan Oromo), Sidama, Gurage, Wolayta, and Dizi. Among the imperial troops was Ras Gobena's Shewan Oromo militia. Many of...

migration and thus the formation of the Gobad sultanate, however the Oromo expansion expansion would cause the Afar and Somali Sade clans to ally in order to...