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{{About|the ethnic group|the district|Gurgura (woreda)}}
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| native_name = غرغرة
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| region2 = {{flagcountry|Djibouti}}
| region3 = {{flagcountry|Ethiopia}}
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}}The '''Gurgura''', '''Gorgorah''' or '''Gurgure''' ({{lang-so|''Gurgura''}}, {{lang-ar|غرغرة}}) people are a ] clan that is part of the large ] clan. They inhabit large portions of the ] (Zone 4) of Ethiopia, also the ] and ] of that country.

== Distribution ==
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The Gurgura are of the Madahwein Dir, making them directly related to the Gurre and Gariire and other Madahwein Dirs.<ref name=":33">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3DGs00LT8EC|title=Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho|last=Lewis|first=I. M. |publisher=Red Sea Press |year=1998 |isbn=9781569021057|location=|page=|pages=|language=en|quote=At the end of the book "Tribal Distribution of Somali Afar and Saho"|via=}}</ref> They also have lineal ties with the ], ], ], Bajimal, ], ], Madigan, ] and other Dir subclans.<ref name=":33"/><ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.nl/books?id=dcMtAQAAIAAJ&q=Gurgura+dir&dq=Gurgura+dir&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP1obm55nPAhUmLcAKHROvDHUQ6AEIOjAF |title=Ethiopia: the top 100 people |last=Verdier |first=Isabelle |publisher=Indigo Publications |year=1997 |isbn=9782905760128 |location= |pages=13 |language=en|via=}}</ref>

== History ==
] political organizations sought to coerce the Gurgura, (who's identity was very contentious for the city of ]) who largely speak the ] (Oromiffa), to identify themselves as Oromo, though they belong to the ] clan family of the Somalis. Oromo political organizations claimed that "the Gurgura people who speak Oromiffa belong to the Oromo nation and they only started to identify themselves with the Somali after the 1974 change of the Haile Selassie regime".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.nl/books?id=LAG_bETsbGEC&pg=PA210&dq=gurgura+people+++The+Coming+African+Hour:+Dialectics+of+Opportunities+and+Constraints&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzjczsrpfPAhVDJcAKHU6jD_kQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=gurgura%2520people%2520%2520%2520The%2520Coming%2520African%2520Hour%253A%2520Dialectics%2520of%2520Opportunities%2520and%2520Constraints&f=false |title=The Coming African Hour: Dialectics of Opportunities and Constraints|last=Sindjoun|first=Luc |publisher=African Books Collective |year=2010 |isbn=9780798302302 |location=|pages=210|language=en|via=}}</ref> This is false since the Gurgura are mentioned in the ''Futuh Al Habasha : Conquest of Abyssinia'' as source dating back as far as the 16th century, by author: ''Shihabudin Ahmad bin Abd al-Qadir 'Arab Faqih'' or '''Arab Faqih.'' It is recorded that the Gurgura were Somalis who fought alongside ] or ] with knights, spear-men and foot-soldiers and their leader Garād 'Abd.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.nl/books?id=YgIwAQAAIAAJ&q=gorgorah&dq=gorgorah&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0u9nur5fPAhUsDsAKHVRJB_kQ6AEINDAD |title=The conquest of Abyssinia: 16th century |last=ʻArabfaqīh|first=Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Tsehai Publishers & Distributors|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=120, 123 and 401|language=en|via=}}</ref>

Many prominent Gurgura in ], including traditional leaders, have identified as Somali, to the dislike of the Oromo. <ref>{{cite journal |author=Asnake Kefale <!-- Kefale is his patronym, not his last name. --> |date=2014 |title=Ethnic decentralization and the challenges of inclusive governance in multiethnic cities: The case of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia |journal=Regional & Federal Studies |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=589–605 |doi=10.1080/13597566.2014.971772 }}</ref>

==References==
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