Historical maps of the ancient Aksum / Abyssinian Empire and Adal / Somali empires indicate that Oromo people are newcomers to most of modern-day central Ethiopia.

Historically, the Afaan Oromo speaking people used the indigenous Gadaa system of governance.

Some Oromo writers believe that the Oromo Ras Gobena and the Amhara Menelik II were the first two people in Ethiopia with the concept of national boundary that brought various different ethno-linguistic communities under a politically and militarily centralized rule.

Bareentu / Bareento or ( older ) Bareentuma is one of the two moieties of the Oromo people.

Historically, some people among the northern Amhara community used the label " Galla " derogatorily to label Oromos as well as to label Shewan or southern Amharas who were mostly mixed with Oromo.

It is a major crop, although often supplemented with cereal crops, amongst the following people indigenous to southern Ethiopia: the Aari, Basketo, Dime, Dizi, Gamo, Gedeo, Gimira, Goffa, Gurage, Hadiya, Kafficho, Kambaata, Konta, Kullo, Maji, Mao, some Oromo groups, Sheko, Sidama, Welayta, Yem, Uba and the Zala.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

The Afar are Eastern Cushite people, and have a similar language and culture to the Somali and Oromo.

-1831 ), a chief of one of the tribes of the Oromo people in Ethiopia

The source of the Shebelle River is venerated by both the Arsi Oromo and the Sidamo people.

He then ventured in the territory of the Oromo people, later becoming governor of the Egyptian Bahr-el-Ghazal province, where he struggled against Sebehr and the slave trade and also started the deployment of natural gum.

* Macca Oromo, a clan-based subgroup of the Oromo people

This was challenged by the mostly Christian northern people of Abyssinia, including Amhara, Tigray and north western Oromo.

Historian Ulrich Braukamper says, " the expansion of the non-Muslim Oromo people during subsequent centuries mostly eliminated Islam in those areas.

This alliance enabled him to usurp the throne 30 August 1856 and oppressed his own people by not only devaluing the city's currency while extracting a special mahalaq al-Galla or Oromo tax.

However, the territory eventually became the possession of the Oromo people, who had begun settling there as early as the Mudana gadaa ( 1530-1538 ).

Ethiopian efforts to recover Bale ended when Fasil, brother of Emperor Sarsa Dengel, was killed with all of his people by the Dawe Oromo.

They were later isolated from the rest of Ethiopia by the Oromo people, who settled around the lake.

Thus he centered his interest on the Oromo, in his time known as the Galla, people of southern Ethiopia who then were largely traditional believers.

Harms had a vision to begin his missionary work with the Oromo people ( then called the Galla ) in East Africa.

* Barentu ( Oromo ) is a moiety of the Oromo people.

The Oromo (, " The Powerful ";, ’ Oromo ) are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and parts of Somalia.

While further research is needed to precisely comprehend their origins, the Oromo are believed to have originally adhered to a pastoralist / nomadic and / or semi-agriculturalist lifestyle.

Both these Ethiopian Emperors are ethnically mixed, with Oromo parents and lineages.

The Oromo are divided into two major branches that break down into an assortment of clan families.

The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist group living in southern Ethiopia ( Oromia ) and northern Kenya.

The Oromo are divided into two major branches that break down into an assortment of clan families.

*** The Guji Oromo, who are inhabiting the southern part of Oromia, neighboring the Borana Guttuu and the Sidama People.

* The Walloo Oromo, who are the northernmost group, and live predominantly in the Oromia Zone of the Amhara Region, as far north as Lake Ashenge, and are also found in the southern Raya Azebo woreda in the Tigray Region.

* January 17 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia defeats an Oromo army at Ebenat ; 12, 000 Oromo are reportedly killed at a cost of 400 Amhara.

" Pancakes " in the Horn of Africa region ( Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia ) are known as injera ( sometimes transliterated enjera ; Oromo: budenaa ; Somali: canjeero ).

Forms of Oromo are spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighbouring peoples in Ethiopia and parts of northern Kenya.

Some linguists think of Oromo as a dialect continuum, since not all varieties are mutually intelligible.

Afan Oromo and Qubee are currently utilized by the Ethiopian government's state radios, TV stations and regional government newspaper.

Like most other Ethiopian languages, whether Semitic, Cushitic, or Omotic, Oromo has a set of ejective consonants, that is, voiceless stops or affricates that are accompanied by glottalization and an explosive burst of air.

Its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo.

Both the Zone and the former province are named after a subgroup of the Oromo, who inhabit both.

It is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and its nearest relatives are the Afar and Oromo languages.

With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnicity in Ethiopia and approximately 34. 49 % of the population according to the 2007 census .< ref name =" census2007p66 "> Their native language is Oromo ( also called Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa ), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

The two largest ethnic groups reported were the Oromo ( 84. 15 %) and the Amhara ( 14. 3 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 55 % of the population.

The two largest ethnic groups reported in Arsi were the Oromo ( 82. 93 %), and the Amhara ( 15. 38 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 69 % of the population.

The five largest ethnic groups in Benishangul-Gumuz were the Berta ( 27 %), Gumuz ( 23 %), Amhara ( 22 %), Oromo ( 13 %) and Shinasha ( 7 %).

) The six largest ethnic groups of the region were the Nuer ( 39. 7 %), the Anuak ( 27. 45 %), Amhara ( 7. 74 %), Oromo ( 6. 49 %), Mezhenger ( 5. 76 %), and Kafficho ( 4. 18 %); all other ethnic groups made up 8. 68 % of the population.

Islam is the religion of the overwhelming majority of the Somali, Afar, Argobba and Harari, and the largest group of the Oromo peoples of Ethiopia according to the 1994 national census.

" The three largest ethnic groups reported in Bahir Dar Special Zone were the Amhara ( 96. 23 %), the Tigrayan ( 1. 11 %), and the Oromo ( 1. 1 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 56 % of the population.

The three largest ethnic groups reported in Semien Gondar were the Amhara ( 93. 21 %), the Tigrayan ( 3. 98 %), and the Oromo ( 0. 7 %); all other ethnic groups made up 2. 11 % of the population.

) The five largest ethnic groups reported in Moyale were the Oromo ( 37. 94 %), the Burji ( 16. 85 %), the Amhara ( 16. 42 %), the Welayta ( 4. 82 %), and the Silt ' e ( 4. 28 %); all other ethnic groups made up 19. 69 % of the population.

However, the largest language in Ethiopia is the Oromo language, a Cushitic language spoken by 33. 8 % of the population.

The three largest ethnic groups reported in Jimma were the Oromo ( 46. 71 %), the Amhara ( 17. 14 %) and the Dawuro ( 10. 05 %); all other ethnic groups made up 26. 1 % of the population.

The three largest ethnic groups reported in this town were the Amhara ( 91. 34 %), Tigrayan ( 5. 85 %), and the Oromo ( 1. 29 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 52 % of the population.

The five largest ethnic groups reported for this town were the Amhara ( 33. 33 %), the Hamer ( 12. 5 %), the Goffa ( 12. 17 %), the Gamo ( 9. 83 %), and the Oromo ( 9. 5 %); all other ethnic groups made up 22. 67 % of the population.

The three largest ethnic groups reported for this town were the Amhara ( 42. 86 %), the Oromo ( 39. 4 %), and the Gurage ( 8. 3 %); all other ethnic groups made up 9. 44 % of the population.

The Bale Mountains are the true ancestral home of the Oromo, the largest single ethnic group in the Horn of Africa.

The five largest ethnic groups reported in the town were the Amhara ( 90. 12 %), the Oromo ( 3. 94 %), the Tigrayan ( 1. 81 %), the Gurage ( 1. 6 %), and the Argobba ( 1. 2 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 33 % of the population.

The six largest ethnic groups reported in this town were the Oromo ( 41. 19 %), the Amhara ( 29. 93 %), the Berta ( 17. 39 %), the Tigray ( 5. 43 %), the Sebat Bet Gurage ( 1. 35 %), and the Silt ' e ( 1. 29 %); all other ethnic groups made up 3. 42 % of the population.

The three largest ethnic groups reported in this town were the Amhara ( 97. 12 %), the Tigrayan ( 1. 29 %), and the Oromo ( 0. 67 %); all other ethnic groups made up 0. 92 % of the population.