The Karrayyu (also Kerrayu, Karrayyuu) are an Oromo clan inhabiting the Awash Valley banks of Abadir and Merti area in central Ethiopia . They are pastoralists . Karrayyu neighbor the Afar and Argobba people. It is believed the extinct Harla ethnicity were assimilated into Karrayyu Oromo in eastern Shewa .
6-598: The Karrayyu are known to have migrated to Metehara the capital of the Harla Kingdom . The Karrayyu inhabit the Afar Region , Oromia , Somali Region . This article about an Ethiopian ethnicity is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Metehara Metehara ( Amharic : መተሐራ , Oromo : Mataharaa ) is a town in central Ethiopia . Located in the East Shewa Zone of
12-626: A factory to process sugar at Metehara, after it had been expelled from Indonesia in 1954. In 1970, the Karrayyu Oromo staged an armed demonstration in Metehara which destroyed fences and buildings at the HVA plantation. The Derg announced 3 February 1975 that the sugar plantation, including the Dutch investments, would be fully nationalized. During the 2002 drought, a Karrayyu Oromo leader
18-565: The Issa and Gadabuursi migrated to this region towards the end of the era of Emperor Menelik II . Later their numbers increased as relatives and kinsmen took permanent settlement there. On the eve of the Italian invasion , a German named Neitzel had been granted a concession to cultivate cotton and coffee . Despite that, few people lived in the area until the arrival of the Dutch corporation Handelsvereeningung Amsterdam (HVA), which established
24-566: The Oromia Region , it has a latitude and longitude of 08°54′N 39°55′E / 8.900°N 39.917°E / 8.900; 39.917 with an elevation of 947 meters above sea level. Access to Metehara includes a station on the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway . There is a Tuesday livestock market. Notable local landmarks include Metehara Mikael Bet church, Mount Fentale to the north, Awash National Park to
30-466: The northeast, and Lake Basaka to the south of the town. The town is inhabited by the Karrayyu Oromo , Afar , Somali Dir clans ( Issa and Gadabuursi ) and Amhara . Visitors to the area in the first decades of the 20th century frequently described the area as land between the Karrayyu Oromo , Afar , Somali Dir clans ( Issa and Gadabuursi ) and Amhara . Somali settlers from
36-598: Was killed in Metehara, which increased tensions between the Karrayyu Oromo and Afar peoples . As a result the Afar, who traded at the Tuesday market, did not go to the market during that drought. Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Metehara has an estimated total population of 21,348 of whom 10,763 were men and 10,585 were women. The 1994 national census reported this town had
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