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Garamante were the advanced berber tribes in north africa many of them fought the romans. Garamante certainly had contact with Horn of Africans, this is where you find the Garad title which is spread into niger, chad and Mauritania who also use this title, you will also find some somali clans such as the garhajis etc. Garaman was used in Adal to mean the "noble ones".
Gaetuli also known as Gaturi are another ancient berber tribe you will find people from horn have surnames like Gatur. Gatur were neighbors to Garamante. The Romans believed they were the first tribe to enter Africa. Some old documents found in east africa mention the presence of Gaturi. We can assume there presence in east africa was due to war that the romans had waged on their people.
"In 25 B.C. Augustus seems to have given a part of Gaetulia to Juba II., together with his kingdom of Mauretania, doubtless with the object of controlling the turbulent tribes; but the Gaetulians rose and massacred the Roman residents, and it was not till a severe defeat had been inflicted on them by Lentulus Cossus (who thus acquired the surname Gaetulicus) in A.D. 6 that they submitted to the king. After Mauretania became a Roman province in A.D. 40, the Roman governors made frequent expeditions into the Gaetulian territory to the south, and the official view seems to be expressed by Pliny (v. 4.30) when he says that all Gaetulia as far as the Niger and the Ethiopian frontier was reckoned as subject to the XI. 13 Empire."
Gaetuli (Gaturi) & Garamante roman era map
Gaetuli also known as Gaturi are another ancient berber tribe you will find people from horn have surnames like Gatur. Gatur were neighbors to Garamante. The Romans believed they were the first tribe to enter Africa. Some old documents found in east africa mention the presence of Gaturi. We can assume there presence in east africa was due to war that the romans had waged on their people.
"In 25 B.C. Augustus seems to have given a part of Gaetulia to Juba II., together with his kingdom of Mauretania, doubtless with the object of controlling the turbulent tribes; but the Gaetulians rose and massacred the Roman residents, and it was not till a severe defeat had been inflicted on them by Lentulus Cossus (who thus acquired the surname Gaetulicus) in A.D. 6 that they submitted to the king. After Mauretania became a Roman province in A.D. 40, the Roman governors made frequent expeditions into the Gaetulian territory to the south, and the official view seems to be expressed by Pliny (v. 4.30) when he says that all Gaetulia as far as the Niger and the Ethiopian frontier was reckoned as subject to the XI. 13 Empire."
Gaetuli (Gaturi) & Garamante roman era map
