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

Ethiopia and northern Kenya until the Oromo migrations began about 1530. Historical evidence suggests that the Oromo people were already established in the...

Great Migration of African Americans from the rural American South to the industrial north during 1920–1950, and The Great Oromo Migrations of Oromo tribes...

Oromo nationalism is an ethnic nationalism advocating the self-interest of Oromo people in Ethiopia and Kenya. Many Oromo elites, intellectuals and political...

invaded by the Oromo migrations. The Maya repelled the weight of the Oromo for years due to their skill with the bow, until the Oromo armies changed tactics...

Gojjam and Kingdom of Damot in the west before the incursions of the Oromo migrations. The earliest reference to the Kistane dates back centuries. Historical...

people, and the Argobba). During the 1600s, there were large-scale migrations of the Oromo from the south into the highlands and also alongside the Somali...

prehistorical migration since the Neolithic period until AD 1800. See Early human migrations for migration prior to the Neolithic, History of human migration for...

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...

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

The Oromo are more than 7000 years old and originated in southern Ethiopia expanding once the Oromo migrations began near 1530. There are 15 Oromo dialects...

In the late sixteenth century, the Hadiya regions were overrun by Oromo migrations. In 1689, Iyasu's Armenian trade agent, Khodja Murad told the Dutch...

also captured and sold to traders from Arabia, India, Greece, and beyond. Oromo subjects were favoured due to their perceived handsome features and higher...

sixteenth century the nomadic Oromo people penetrated the Habesha plains occupying large territories during the Oromo migrations. Abyssinian warlords often...

Shewa Zone and Arsi Zone. The Oromo migrations led to the region being renamed for the third time to Arsi, after the Arsi Oromo. The Fatagar region, being...

1543 Battle of Wayna Daga. By the 16th century, an influx of migration by ethnic Oromo into northern parts of the region fragmented the empire's power...

Gamo. 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...

of land between the Karkaar Mountains, the middle Awash and Jijiga. Oromo migrations have effectively split this putative ethnolinguistic block to the Lake...

The migrations had a severe impact on the Solomonic dynasty of Abyssinia, as well as an impact on the recently weakened Adal Sultanate. The migrations concluded...

The Orma is one of the Oromo clans in the Horn of Africa who predominantly live in Tana River County in northern Kenya and in southern Ethiopia. They...

of the Empire's southern territory and vassals were lost due to the Oromo migrations. In the north, in what is now Eritrea, Ethiopia managed to repulse...

JSTOR 40758604. Bulcha, Mekuria (2002). The Making of Oromo Diaspora: A Historical Sociology of Forced Migrations. Burnsville, MN: Kirk House Publishers. p. 124...

a tradition of ranks and age classes similar to the Gadaa system of the Oromo people. Beckingham and Huntingford describe the system as seven grades that...

Lindahl, Bernhard. Local History of Ethiopia (PDF). Nordic Africa Institute. p. 9. Hassen, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia (PDF). University of London. p. 335....

destitution, or assimilation. Strong evidence suggests that during the Oromo migrations, the remaining Harla retreated behind the walls of Harar and were able...

Shewa (Amharic: ሸዋ; Oromo: Shawaa; Somali: Shawa; Arabic: شيوا), formerly romanized as Shua, Shoa, Showa, Shuwa (Scioà in Italian), is a historical region...

የአፍሪካ ቀንድ yäafrika qänd, in Arabic القرن الأفريقي al-qarn al-'afrīqī, in Oromo Gaaffaa Afriikaa, and in Tigrinya ቀርኒ ኣፍሪቃ q’ärnī afīrīqa. The Horn of Africa...

military stance towards invaders, the Ajuran Empire successfully resisted Oromo invasions from the west and fought against Portuguese incursions from the...

including Amhara, Tigray and north western Oromo. However the north and northeastern expansion of the Oromo, who practiced mainstream traditional Waaqa...

proposed to have broke away and migrated from there some time before the Oromo onslaught. Shungwaya appears to have been, in its heyday, a multi-ethnic...