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Oromo

1522 – 1897
CultureAfrica

Cushitic-speaking pastoralists organised by the gadaa generation-grade system who, from the 1520s, expanded out of a southern homeland at Harroo Walabuu across Bali, Dawaro, Shewa and beyond, in the vacuum left by the Adal–Ethiopian wars. By the 18th century Oromo groups held much of central, western and eastern Ethiopia; the Macha of the Gibe valley built the kingdoms of Jimma, Limmu-Enarya, Guma, Gomma and Gera before Menelik II's armies annexed them in the 1880s.

Not an ending: the Oromo are the largest nation of Ethiopia and hold the Oromia region. The map hands off to the Ethiopian Empire, which absorbed the Oromo lands during Menelik II's conquests of the 1880s–1890s.

Borders in 1522 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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