The Gurgura of Dire Dawa mostly, not sure if they inhabit other lands, are dir in origin, but have inter-married with Muslim Oromos to the point that they speak both languages. But some say they are Oromo?
Gurgura Oromo dha?
‘’At the end of the 2nd days march, Jaldessa was reached. There the Somali attendants and porters from the coast had to be dismissed, and camels and Oromo drivers hired in their stead. Jaldessa is a place of about 200 huts, having a permanent population of about 1,500; and, owing to its situation, it forms an important trade-centre between the Somali and Oromo lands. The entrance into the latter country lies along the deeply-eroded bed of a narrow khor, only about 20 paces wide. Owing to its terrace-like formation and the agricultural industry of its comparatively large population, the country of the Oromos presents at first some resemblance to a Swiss district. The road to Belaua (5800 above sea-level), the first halting-station in Oromo-land, followed the bed of a narrow wadi; in fact it was in places so narrow that the loads had to be partly taken from the backs of the camels to enable them to proceed. At this station the thermometer fell during the night to 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The country to the west, called Gurgura, is the most productive hunting-ground for elephants in Northern Oromo-land, but neither the Somali nor the Oromos hunt them; that they leave to immigrant Abyssinians.’’
[Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 2; Volume 1886
Gurgura Oromo dha?
‘’At the end of the 2nd days march, Jaldessa was reached. There the Somali attendants and porters from the coast had to be dismissed, and camels and Oromo drivers hired in their stead. Jaldessa is a place of about 200 huts, having a permanent population of about 1,500; and, owing to its situation, it forms an important trade-centre between the Somali and Oromo lands. The entrance into the latter country lies along the deeply-eroded bed of a narrow khor, only about 20 paces wide. Owing to its terrace-like formation and the agricultural industry of its comparatively large population, the country of the Oromos presents at first some resemblance to a Swiss district. The road to Belaua (5800 above sea-level), the first halting-station in Oromo-land, followed the bed of a narrow wadi; in fact it was in places so narrow that the loads had to be partly taken from the backs of the camels to enable them to proceed. At this station the thermometer fell during the night to 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The country to the west, called Gurgura, is the most productive hunting-ground for elephants in Northern Oromo-land, but neither the Somali nor the Oromos hunt them; that they leave to immigrant Abyssinians.’’
[Scottish Geographical Magazine, Volume 2; Volume 1886
