Sidi Mohammed

{{Short description|Ruler of Hadiya}}

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| succession = Governor of Hadiya

| reign = early 1600s

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| birth_place = Hadiya Sultanate

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| occupation = state leader

| religion = Islam

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Sidi Mohammed was the Garad (chief) of the Hadiya Sultanate in the beginning of the seventeenth century.{{cite book |last1=Shinn |first1=David |title=Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WU92d6sB8JAC&dq=sidi+hadiya&pg=PA200}}{{cite book |title=Amuma |publisher=Encyclopedia Aethiopica |url=https://en.sewasew.com/p/amuma-(%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%99%E1%88%9B)}} He is considered a descendant of some of the Silt'e clan originators as well as the founder of Halaba ethnic group.{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Ronny |title=The Qabena and the Wolane: Two peoples of the Gurage region and their respective histories according to their own oral traditions |publisher=Annales d'Éthiopie |page=178 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/ethio_0066-2127_2001_num_17_1_997}}{{cite book |last1=Musa |first1=Hussein |title=Silt'e as a Medium of Instruction |publisher=Addis Ababa University |page=32 |url=http://213.55.95.56/bitstream/handle/123456789/16274/Hussein%20Mohammed.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=2 November 2023 |archive-date=17 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417103126/http://213.55.95.56/bitstream/handle/123456789/16274/Hussein%20Mohammed.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |title=Sidi |publisher=Encyclopedia Aethiopica |url=https://en.sewasew.com/p/sidi-(%E1%88%B2%E1%8B%B2)}}

Political career

Garad Sidi is known for defeating the soldiers of Abyssinian emperor Susenyos I at the Battle of Hadiya in the 1600s.{{cite book |last1=Aregay |first1=Merid |title=Southern Ethiopia and the Christian kingdom 1508 - 1708, with special reference to the Galla migrations and their consequences. |publisher=University of London |pages=438–439 |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308149}}{{cite book |last1=Lindahl |first1=Bernhard |title=Local History of Ethiopia |publisher=Nordic Africa Institute |page=9 |url=https://nai.uu.se/download/18.39fca04516faedec8b248ded/1580829012069/ORTHAA05.pdf}}{{cite book |last1=Hassen |first1=Mohammed |title=Oromo of Ethiopia |publisher=University of London |page=335 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29226/1/10731321.pdf}}

See also

Aze, sixteenth century leader of Hadiya

References