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...

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

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

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...

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...