Abstract:
This paper tries to present the town of Ginir groups and also certain other ethnolinguistic groups are there, the area where the town later founded was rich in cereal
crops and grain production.
This study is mainly focused on oral information collected in the summer of 2015
and 2016. Some of the informants are eyewitness and other and other acquired
from their ancestors. There is critical shortage of written sources. I attempted my
best to collect data from different source in order to produce this thesis.
This paper is organized in four chapters. The first chapter tries to give a brief
explanation about general background of urbanization in the world, Africa and
Ethiopia in general. The second chapter deals with the early foundation of the
town, population of the town and religion. The third chapter also deals about
socioeconomic activity of the town. And finally the fourth chapter deals about
traditional institutions that practiced in the town.
