Lieka

Lieka stood on the Bilo plain in the Oromo country southwest of Shewa. It became an important market town under a hereditary Oromo ruler. The surrounding Gibe region had once belonged to the kingdom of Ennarea, whose fall around 1710 was followed by Oromo settlement and the emergence of new kingdoms. In this changing political landscape, markets such as Lieka linked the communities of the western highlands.