To the south of the Ethiopian kingdom,…

1828 CE to 1839 CE

To the south of the Ethiopian kingdom, segments of the Oromo population—cultivators and suppliers of goods exportable to the Red Sea coast and beyond—have meanwhile developed kingdoms of their own, no doubt stimulated in part by the examples of the Amhara to the north and the Sidama kingdoms to the south.

The seventeenth through nineteenth century is a period not only of migration but also of integration, as groups borrow usable techniques and institutions from each other.

In the south, too, Islam has made substantial inroads.

Many Oromo chieftains find Islam a useful tool in the process of centralization as well as in the building of trade networks.

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Gondar > Gonder Amhara Ethiopia View →

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Tigray-Tigrinya people View → Sidama people View → Agaw people View → Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox) View → Oromo people View → Islam View → Amhara people View → Abyssinia (also called "Mecca and Medina"), Ottoman eyalet of View → Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of View →

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Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European View → Sub-Saharan Africa, Modern View → Zemene Mesafint (Ethiopia's "Age of Princes") View →

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Commerce View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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