Masarautar Garo

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Masarautar Garo wacce aka fi sani da  bayan daular mulkinta, masarautar Oromo da Sidama ce a yankin kahon Afirka. Kabilar Sidama ne suka kafa ta, tana kan iyakar yankin Gibe na Habasha.

 Wuri 
Masarautar Garo tana da tabbatacciyar iyaka a arewa da Masarautar Janjero, daga gabas kuwa kogin Omo, daga kudu kuma kogin Gojeb ya raba Garo da Masarautar Kaffa. Kasancewar ba ta da iyaka a kan iyakokinta na yamma, al'ummar masarautar sun yi jerin ramuka da kofofi don kare kansu daga mamayewar 'yan Oromo na Masarautar Jimma. Werner J. Lange, History of the Southern Gonga (Southwestern Ethiopia) (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1982), p. 53.

 Tarihi 
Werner Lange yayi magana akan yuwuwar masarautar Garo ta kasance wani yanki ne na Ennarea, kamar yadda Ennarea ya kasance wani yanki na masarautar Damot. Lange, p. 50. A zamanin Yeshaq I, Garo ya ware kansa daga Ennarea, kuma ya kasance ƙasa mai raɗaɗi ga Habasha; yana iya zama "Bosge" da aka ambata a cikin hanyoyin tafiya na Zorzi. A cikin ƙarni na 16, Sarkin sarakuna Sarsa Dengel ya shawo kan Sarkin Garo ya rungumi Kiristanci a hukumance. Ya zuwa ƙarni na 17, Habasha ta rasa duk wata alaƙa da wannan jiha, kuma tarihin wannan jiha ya kasance "ba komai ba ne" a mafi yawan ƙarnin nan, duk da cewa a karkashin matsin lamba na sauran 'yan ƙabilar Oromo da suka yi hijira zuwa yankin Gibe ya tilastawa "sarautar Bosa". Masarautar dole ne ta ci gaba da raguwa a hankali har sai an bar wani yanki kaɗan a cikin gandun daji na Mayu Gudo a ƙarshen ƙarni." Lange, p. 55.

Garo asalin kasa ce mai cin gashin kanta har zuwa lokacin mulkin Abba Gomol na Jimma, wanda ya mamaye yankin da ya kebe na karshe na wannan daula. A lokacin da sarki Haile Selassie ya maye gurbin Jimma, ɗan zuriyar Dagoye, Sarkin Garo na karshe, yana zaune a cikin wani yanayi bayan da aka "kore shi na wani ɗan lokaci" a garin Jiren. G.W.B. Huntingford, The Galla of Ethiopia; the Kingdoms of Kafa and Janjero (London: International African Institute, 1955), p. 57.

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