According to
Mohammed Hassen, the Gaturi were a Semitic-speaking people who resided in the region of
Mount Kundudo,
Babile, and
Dawaro. Historian
Merid Wolde Aregay deduced that the Gatur state language was
Harari. The Harari chronicle states
Abadir arrived at an Islamic region called Balad Gatur known later as
Harar in the tenth or thirteenth century. In Harar, Abadir encountered the Gaturi alongside the
Harla and
Argobba people. Gaturi is claimed by one source to be a Harla sub clan. According to another Harari tradition seven clans and villages united against a common adversary, including Gaturi, to form Harar city state. According to sixteenth century Adal writer
Arab Faqīh, during the
Ethiopian-Adal war, one of the leaders of the Muslim forces of
Malassay was Amir Husain bin Abubaker al-Gaturi.
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi designated Amir Husain al-Gaturi as governor of
Dawaro region which was a border province of Abyssinia. Gaturi ceased to be mentioned in texts after the sixteenth century. Gaturi is today represented as a sub group of the
Harari people and remains a Harari surname. ==Language==