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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 ]
The first detailed history of the Oromo people comes from the Ethiopian monk Bahrey who wrote Zenahu la Galla, or "History of the Galla" in 1593. [55] [56] They are also mentioned in the records left by Abba Paulos, Joao Bermudes, Jerónimo Lobo, Galawdewos, Sarsa Dengel and others. These records suggest that the Oromo were a pastoralist people ...
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]
In white colonial literature, these people were called the Galla. The Oromo never called themselves Galla as they considered the name offensive. [4] In the middle of the twentieth century, following the principle that the name a people use for themselves is to be taken in for official and scientific use, the name Galla was slowly replaced by ...
The Apostolic Vicariate of the Galla (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Africae inter Populos Galla) was a Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate established in 1846, and embracing the territory of the Oromo people (then called the Galla) in the Ethiopian Empire.
Oromo (/ ˈ ɒr ə m oʊ / [5] OR-əm-ow or / ɔː ˈ r oʊ m oʊ / [6] [7] aw-ROW-mow; Oromo: Afaan Oromoo), historically also called Galla, [8] which is regarded by the Oromo as pejorative, [9] is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushitic branch.
Gallu demons hauled unfortunate victims off to the underworld.They were one of seven devils (or "the offspring of hell") of Babylonian theology that could be appeased by the sacrifice of a lamb at their altars.
Ryszard Galla, Polish politician; Galla Gaulo, the fifth traditional Doge of Venice (755–756) Galla tinctoria, the commercial nutgall produced by the gall oak (Quercus lusitanica) Galla Township, Pope County, Arkansas; Gallu, a Mesopotamian demon; Another name for P'tcha, a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish food; Outdated exonym for the Oromo