The Sidama (Amharic: ሲዳማ) are an ethnic group traditionally inhabiting the Sidama Region, formerly part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples'...
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The Sidama Region (Sidama: Sidaamu Qoqqowo; Amharic: ሲዳማ ክልል) is a regional state in southern Ethiopia. It was formed on 18 June 2020 from the Southern...
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million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, and Sidama. The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo...
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Selam (Amharic: ሀገረ ሰላም) is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located in the Sidama Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (or kilil)...
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claim their forefathers were Harari however they later became influenced by Sidama. In the beginning of the early seventeenth century, the lands of Arsi Oromo...
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populous language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers. The languages are: Burji (divergent) Sidamoid (also Sidamic) Sidama Gedeo Hadiyya–Libido...
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Tigray Independence Party Sidama Proposed: Self-determination and/or autonomy for the Sidama people Militant organization: Sidama National Liberation Front...
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territories to the south, east, and west — areas inhabited by the Oromo, Sidama, Gurage, Welayta, and other peoples. He achieved this with the help of Ras...
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both Semitic and Cushitic speakers, and also had a presence of the Hadiya-Sidama cluster of speakers that was also present in Hadiya. Both Hadiya and Bale...
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Pietro Gazzera (doubles as commander of the Galla and Sidama Troops Command) Galla and Sidama Troops Command, in Jimma – General Pietro Gazzera I Colonial...
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Before the pagan Kingdom of Damot's invasion led by Sidama. A cluster of speakers labelled Hadiya-Sidama developed, maintaining Islamic identity and later...
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and Adal and the Afars. In the central and south were found the ancient Sidama and Semitic Gurage, among others. One of the first kingdoms to rise to power...
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Aleta Wendo (category Sidama Region)
sources of the Ganale Dorya and Dawa Rivers in the Aleta Wendo Zone of the Sidama Regional State, this town has a longitude and latitude of 6°36′N 38°25′E...
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kingdoms. Menelik expanded his realm to the south and east, into Oromo, Kaffa, Sidama, Wolayta and other kingdoms or peoples.: 2 Later in his reign, Menelik...
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Aleta Wendo (woreda) (category Sidama Region)
Aleta Wendo is one of the woredas in the Sidama Region of Ethiopia. Aleta Wendo is bordered on the south by Dara, on the west by Chuko, on the north by...
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among the Sidama. In New Trends in Ethiopian Studies: Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Harold Marcus, ed., vol 2, 1033–1043...
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on the east, south and west; Gedeo shares its northern boundary with the Sidama Region. Dilla is the administrative center; other towns include Dilla, Wonago...
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Hawassa Zuria (category Sidama Region)
Hawassa Zuria is a woreda in Sidama Region, Ethiopia. Located in the Great Rift Valley, Hawassa Zuria is bordered on the south by Shebedino and Boricha...
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once-powerful Kingdom of Damot, and that she was related to one of the indigenous Sidama people of southern Ethiopia. Modern historian Enrico Cerulli discovered...
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(1890). Éthiopie méridionale journal de mon voyage aux pays Amhara, Oromo et Sidama, septembre 1885 à novembre 1888. Quantin, Librairies-imprimeries réunies...
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society. The belief in spirit possession is part of the native culture of the Sidama people of southwest Ethiopia. Anthropologists Irene and John Hamer postulated...
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Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Located at the eastern tip of the Sidama Zone that extends into the Oromia Region like a peninsula, Aroresa is bordered...
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Dara (Amharic: ዳራ) is one of the woredas in the Sidama Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Sidama Region, Dara is bordered on the south by the Gedeo Zone...
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religion Safwa religion Samburu religion San religion N'um Serer religion Sidama religion Surma religion Tammari traditional religion Temne traditional religion...
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Oromia Region, on the east by the Bilate River which separated it from Sidama and another part of the Oromia Region, and on the southeast by the Amaro...
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in the south of the country, where you have the Kenbata, Hadiya, Gedeo, Sidama, and others performing their colorful, traditional belly dances that are...
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that were annexed included those of the western Oromo (non-Shoan Oromo), Sidama, Gurage, Wolayta, and Dizi. Among the imperial troops was Ras Gobena's Shewan...
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July 2021. Tefera, Anbessa (1987). "Ballissha: Women's Speech Among the Sidama". Journal of Ethiopian Studies. XX: 44–59. Treis, Yvonne (2005). "Avoiding...
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Bethlehem. There are also gospel singers who sing in Wolayta, Hadiya-Kambata, Sidama, and other areas of the South. Some of the most famous music players in...
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Lat. ignis and Skt. agni (fire) Lith. sėdime and Lat. sedemus and Skt. sīdama (we sit) This even extends to grammar, where for example Latin noun declensions...
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