The
Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea was one of the kingdoms in the
Gibe region of
Ethiopia that emerged in the 19th century. It shared its eastern border with the
Kingdom of Jimma, its southern border with the
Kingdom of Gomma and its western border with the
Kingdom of Gumma. Beyond its northern border lay tribes of the
Macha Oromo. Jimma was considered the most civilized of the Gibe kingdoms, which had a population in the 1880s between 10,000 and 12,000. It was converted to
Islam by missionaries from
Harar in the first half of the 19th century;
C.T. Beke, writing in 1841, reported that its "king and most of his subjects are Mohammedan." Limmu-Ennarea's capital was at
Saqqa.