The Welayta, Wolayta or Wolaytto (Ge'ez: ወላይታ Wolaytta) are an ethnic group and its former kingdom, located in southern Ethiopia. According to the most...
of rulers of WelaytaWelayta Dicha, an Ethiopian football club This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Welayta. If an internal...
kings. The rulers used the title Kawo. Legendarily, ~1251 is the year of Welayta's founding. (In traditional oral sources, where the state of Wolayta also...
Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia. It is the native language of the Welayta people. The estimates of the population vary greatly because it is not...
Wolayta (96.31%); all other ethnic groups made up 3.69% of the population. Welayta was spoken as a first language by 96.82% of the inhabitants; the remaining...
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region. Among these are the Welayta and Gamo. Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nilotic ethnic groups also inhabit the...
south, east, and west — areas inhabited by the Oromo, Sidama, Gurage, Welayta, and other peoples. He achieved this with the help of Ras Gobana Dacche's...
groups reported in Awasa were the Sidama (48.68%), the Amhara (15.43%), the Welayta (13.90%), the Oromo (5.21%), and the Gurage (4.33%); all other ethnic groups...
of South Ethiopia Regional State since August 2023. Tesfaye is from the Welayta people and he was chief administrator of Wolayita Zone from 2011 to 2013...
kingdoms in what is now western, southern, and eastern Ethiopia, like Kaffa, Welayta, Harar, and other kingdoms. Thus, by 1898 Ethiopia expanded into its modern...
were the Sidama (88.6%), the Amhara (4.15%), the Oromo (2.97%), and the Welayta (1.84%); all other ethnic groups made up 2.44% of the population. Sidama...
the various ethnic groups in Semien Omo, which was often blamed on the Welayta for "ethnic chauvinism" and despite the efforts of the ruling party to...
Theresa Thalers or 0.50 US dollars. As Chauncey Hugh Stigand states, the Welayta people had developed the art of weaving and wearing cloths made up of cotton...
of Federal Housing Corporation since June 2017. Haileberhan is from the Welayta people and he was chief administrator of Wolayita Zone from November 2006...
harvesting, it is used as a food source until their crops are ready. The Welayta people in the nearby Wolayita Zone do not weed out S. nigrum that appears...
Gimira states of She, Benesho and Majango. The neighboring state of the Welayta came under their control in the reign of Tato Shagi Sherocho (1775–1795)...
King (1640–1675) Gali Ginocho or Tan Ginok, King (1675–1710) Kingdom of Welayta: Tigre dynasty (complete list) – Gazenja, Kawa (17th century) Gazenya Addayo...
grammatical function of ideophones varies by language. In some languages (e.g. Welayta, Yir-Yiront, Semai, Korean), they form a separate word class, while in...
Other prominent ethnic groups are as follows: Sidama 4.0%, Gurage 2.5%, Welayta 2.3%, Afar 1.7%, Hadiya 1.7%, Gamo 1.5% and Others 12.6%. Afroasiatic-speaking...
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