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Gurgura
Résumé
The Gurgura, Gorgorah or Gurgure (Gurgure, Gurgura, غرغرة) is a northern Somali clan, a sub-division of the Dir clan family.
As a Dir sub-clan, the Gurgura have immediate lineal ties with the Akisho, Gadabuursi, Issa, the Surre (Abdalle and Qubeys), the Biimaal (who the Gaadsen also belong to), the Bajimal, the Bursuk, the Madigan Dir, the Garre (the Quranyow sub-clan to be precise as they claim descent from Dir), Gurre, Gariire, other Dir sub-clans and they have lineal ties with the Hawiye (Irir), Hawadle, Ajuran, Degoodi, Gaalje'el clan groups, who share the same ancestor Samaale.
The Gurgura are the majority clan in the Erer district in the Sitti Zone. Gurgure founded lived around and founded the city of Dire Dawa. Today the Gurgure live in Dire Dawa, Somali Region of Ethiopia, Harar region, Djibouti, Somalia, and the Afar Region.
The Gurgura are a Somali clan who inhabit the area surrounding Dire Dawa, Harar and the Awash Valley. The Gurgura are a Somali tribe who were politically claimed by the Oromos after the various Ethiopian governments have weakened the Gurgura in the region, and the original name of the tribe was Mohamed Madaxweyne Dir. The Gurgure are a vast clan and stretch from Balawa (near Jijiga) to the Awash region; they also extend onto areas to the south where they established settlement of Sheikh Hussein Bale. They are associated with the spread of Islam. According to folklore collected from Dire Dawa region, During an earlier time, the Gurgure were established traders of Ifat and Adal. The arrival of the Oromo tribes from the south caused great disruption for both the Muslim tribes and the Christian Abyssinians. After the Muslim and Christians exhausted themselves with their ongoing wars; the newly arrived Oromos entered Ifat/Adal region (i.e. Dire Dawa & Jijija region). The arrival of the Oromo tribes such as the Ala, Itu, and Oborra) [see John Spencer Trimingham Islam in Ethiopia] caused renewed conflict. A small Oromo tribe called the Nole, that arrived in the region before the other Oromos, suffered from a full scale attack from the Itu, Ala, and Oboraa Oromos.
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