Sidi Mohammed was the
Garad (chief) of the
Hadiya people
Hadiya (Amharic: ሐድያ), also spelled as Hadiyya, is an ethnic group native to Ethiopia in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region who speak the Hadiyya language. According to a popular etymology, the name 'Hadiya," sometimes writt ...
in the beginning of the seventeenth century.
He is considered a descendant of some of the
Silt'e clan originators as well as the founder of
Halaba
Halaba is a zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the Halaba people, and covers part of their homeland. Located in the Great Rift Valley, Halaba zone is bordered on the south by an exclav ...
ethnic group. Garad Sidi is known for defeating the soldiers of
Abyssinian emperor
Susenyos I at the
Battle of Hadiya in the 1600s.
See also
Aze, sixteenth century leader of Hadiya
References
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17th-century Ethiopian people