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The term Raya refers to both the community's ethnic identity and its homeland. The homeland of the Rayans is located in the south end of [the historical] Tegray and northeast of [what is now] the Amhara regional states in Ethiopoia. It is bounded by the former Awrajas of Endarta in the north, Yajju in the south, Awsa in the east and Wag in the west. The pioneers of the present day Raya were the people of Doba and Qeda. These people, who had a long established contact with the Afars, the Amharas and the T'egrians, combined with the Oromo and fromed a separate Rayan identity with the predominance of the Oromo cultural practices. Cultural values of Raya such as rituals, beliefs, ways of dressing and language made possible the Rayans to exist as a separate ethnic group. The ritual practices such as Zar, Wadajja, Dubartti and Tufta, Wayane tradition and Kanfar Wadaj served as ethnic markers of the Rayans.

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