The Dawro are a people of southern
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Er ...
, also known as the Omete. They speak the
Dawragna language.
During the nineteenth century, the Dawro lived in an independent state known as the Kingdom of Dawro. In 2000, the
Dawro Zone was split off from the former
Semien Omo Zone in the
. It consists of the
woredas of
Isara Tocha,
Loma Bosa, and
Mareka Gena.
References
Ethnologue*
Ethnic groups in Ethiopia
Omotic-speaking peoples
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