ABSTRACT
According to both A1 ‘Umari (c. 1345) and Maqrizi (1434), a large part of Ethiopia south of the Hawas was included in the three Moslem states called Dawaro, Hadya, and Bali. It is the last two that are chiefly concerned with the land of the Sidama, for Dawaro lay well to the east; in it was Harar, and its only connection with Sidama-land is the local application of the name Dawaro to the country of Kullo west of the Omo, which was colonized by refugees from Dawaro in the time of the war with Gran (1537-42). The approximate northern boundary of Hadya seems to have been a line running from where the Hawas turns northwards north of Lake Zeway, along the Great Gibe, as far, perhaps, as the Didessa; and included in Hadya were the Galla states of the Gibe, and the Sidama peoples Gudela, Kambatta, Tambaro, Alaba, and Walamo.
