''Moti'' Abba Gomol was

King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...

of the Gibe

Kingdom of Jimma The Kingdom of Jimma ( om, Mootummaa Jimmaa) was an Oromo people, Oromo kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century. It shared its western border with Limmu-Ennarea, its eastern border with the Sidama people, Sidamo K ...

(reigned 1862–1878).

Reign

Abba Gomol was the son of

Abba Bok'a ''Moti'' Abba Bok'a was King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (reigned 1859–1862). He was the son of Abba Magal, and brother of Abba Jifar I. Reign Because the son of his nephew, Moti Abba Rebu, was an infant when he was killed, Abba Bok'a ...

and a woman from the Busase family of the

Kingdom of Kaffa The Kingdom of Kaffa was a kingdom located in what is now Ethiopia from 1390 to 1897, with its first capital at Bonga. The Gojeb River formed its northern border, beyond which lay the Gibe kingdoms; to the east the territory of the Konta and Kul ...

. His major achievement was conquering the

Kingdom of Garo The Kingdom of Garo, also known as Bosha after its ruling dynasty, was an Oromo-Sidama kingdom in the Horn of Africa. Established by the Sidama people, it was situated on the periphery of the Gibe region of Ethiopia. Location The kingdom of Ga ...

, which became the southeast portion of the Kingdom of Jimma.Herbert S. Lewis, ''A Galla Monarchy: Jimma Abba Jifar, Ethiopia'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 1965), pp. 43f.

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Kings of Gibe Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 19th-century monarchs in Africa {{Ethiopia-hist-stub