[9] The Ogaden were the principal force behind a series of Somali expansions that led to expulsion of the Wardey from west of the Jubba River and displacing the Boorana in parts of the North Eastern Province in the 19th century.

A hornbill was sitting on a tree listening to this conversation, and echoed the natives' laugh with an assenting croak of scorn.

Down, too, fell the Ogadayn natives, and remained for some time with their faces pressed against the ground, invoking the protection of the great Allah.

The easternmost parts of the Huwan had negligible to no influence by emperor Menelik II's or by Zewditu, depending on time period.

Somali literature also refers to the territory subjected to Abyssinian expansionism, i.e. the Ogaden, contemporaneously and traditionally known as the Huwan:[13] Rayad oo Ingiriis iyo wixii raacsanaa ah, Dhabayaco oo Talyaani iyo kuwii raacsanaa ah, Huwan oo Amxaaro iyo wixii la halmaala ah ... Rayids were Somalis in a pact with the British, Dhabayaco those in a pact with Italians, Huwan those in a pact with the Amharans ...