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Eora

The traditional owners of the inner Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
City region of Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
are the Cadigal

Cadigal

The Cadigal, also spelled as Gadigal, are a group of Aboriginal Australians who originally inhabited the area that they called 'Cadi', part of which later became known as the Marrickville Council of Sydney....
people, one of the peoples who belong to the Eora language group. Their land south of Port Jackson

Port Jackson

Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour, is the harbor of Sydney, Australia. It is known for its beauty, and in particular, as the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge....
stretches from South Head

Sydney Heads

Sydney Heads , is the entrance to Port Jackson in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.North Head and Quarantine Head are to the north, South Head and Dunbar Head are to the south....
to Petersham

Petersham, New South Wales

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The traditional owners of the inner Sydney

Sydney

Australia

Cadigal

Port Jackson

Sydney Heads

Sydney Heads , is the entrance to Port Jackson in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.North Head and Quarantine Head are to the north, South Head and Dunbar Head are to the south....
to Petersham

Petersham, New South Wales

Petersham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Petersham is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local Government Areas in Australia of Marrickville Council....
. The word Eora (sometimes spelled Iora or Iyora) simply means "here" or "from this place". Local people used this word to describe where they came from to the British. "Eora" was then used by the British to refer to those Aboriginal people. The central Sydney region is still often referred to as "Eora Country". The people described by British settlers as the Eora people were probably Cadigal people, the Aboriginal tribe of the inner Sydney

Sydney

Balmain, New South Wales

Balmain is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located slightly west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local Government Areas in Australia of the Municipality of Leichhardt....
peninsula, the Wanegal to the northwest, and the Cammeraygal

Cammeraygal

The Cammeraygal are an Indigenous Australian people that inhabited the Lower North Shore area of the present-day North Sydney Council in Sydney, Australia....
on the present-day lower North Shore.

While some claim that Eora means "from here", others claim that "yura", meaning "man", gave the word Iyura or Eora. Some of the words of Aboriginal language still in use today are from the Eora (possibly Dharawal) language: dingo

Dingo

|- style = "text-align:center"|style="background: pink;" |Breed standards |- style = "text-align:center"||}The Dingo also known as Warrigal, Maliki, Mirigung, Decker Dog, Boololomo, Repeti, or Australian Native Dog, is a feral dog which mostly lives independently from humans....
, woomera

Woomera

Woomera may refer to:*Woomera , an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool.*Woomera, South Australia, a town named after this tool*Woomera Prohibited Area, is a weapons testing range and rocket-launch site...
, wallaby

Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name....
, wombat

Wombat

Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a very short tail. They are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania....
, waratah

Waratah

Waratah is a genus of five species of large shrubs or small trees in the Proteaceae, native to southeastern Australia, from New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania....
, and boobook

Southern Boobook

The southern boobook , also called the mopoke or morepork, is a small brown owl found mainly in New Zealand and the more fertile and temperate parts of Australia....
(owl).

The Eora / Dharawal

Tharawal people

The Tharawal people were the Australian Aborigine inhabitants of southern Sydney and the Illawarra region in 1788, when the first European colonists arrived....
/ Darug

Darug people

The Darug people are a language group of Indigenous Australians, who are traditional custodians of much of what is modern day Sydney. There is some dispute about the extent of the Darug nation....
(Coastal) people lived largely from the produce of the sea, and were expert in close-to-shore navigation, fishing, cooking, and eating in the bays and harbours in their bark canoes.

When the First Fleet

First Fleet

First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales....
of 1300 convicts, guards, and administrators arrived in January 1788, the Eora numbered about 1500. A smallpox

Smallpox

Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning spotted, or varus, meaning "pimple"....
-like disease in conjunction with other germs and viruses along with the destruction of their natural food sources saw the Eora practically die out during the nineteenth century.

The Eora language has been reconstructed from the many notes made of it by the original colonists, although there has possibly not been a continual oral tradition for over one hundred years.There language is hard to understand and hard to get the hang of. When people herd the eora people speak they looked at them in disguste.

Bennelong

Bennelong

Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora, an Indigenous Australians people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first Kingdom of Great Britain settlement in Australia, in 1788....
of the Eora tribe served as a link between the British colony at Sydney and the Eora people in the early days of the colony. He was given a brick hut on what became known as Bennelong Point

Bennelong Point, New South Wales

Bennelong Point is the location of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia . It was called Tubowghule by the local Indigenous Australians....
where the Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Denmark architect J?rn Utzon, who in 2003 received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour....
now stands. He traveled to England in 1792 along with Yemmerrawanie, and was presented to King George III

George III of the United Kingdom

George III was Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death....
on 24 May 1793. Bennelong returned to Sydney in 1795. His wife, Barangaroo

Barangaroo

Barangaroo was the wife of the famous Indigenous Australians Bennelong. Barangaroo was a determined and independent Cadigal woman who, history books suggest, disliked the invading Europeans and was totally opposed to Bennelong's "conciliatory efforts with the invaders and Governor Phillip"....
has been commemorated in the renaming of an area

Barangaroo, New South Wales

Barangaroo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district and the south-western end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge....
on Darling Harbour.

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