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Kalikata was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India. The other two villages were Gobindapur and Sutanuti . Job Charnock , an administrator with the British East India Company is traditionally credited with the honour of founding the city.
Calabar (also referred to as Callabar, Calabari, Calbari, Cali and Kalabar) [3] is the capital city of Cross River State, Nigeria. It was originally named Akwa Akpa, in the Efik language, as the Efik people dominate this area. [4] The city is adjacent to the Calabar and Great Kwa rivers, and the creeks of the Cross River (from its inland delta).
Nigeria is the world's sixth-most populous country. The birth rate is 35.2-births/1,000 population and the death rate is 9.6 deaths/1,000 population as of 2017, while the total fertility rate is 5.07 children born/woman. [227] Nigeria's population increased by 57 million from 1990 to 2008, a 60% growth rate in less than two decades. [228]
217,313 km 2 (83,905 sq mi) Location of Nigeria. Satellite image of Nigeria. Nigeria is a country in West Africa. It shares land borders with the Republic of Benin to the west, Chad and Cameroon to the east, and Niger to the north. [1] Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it borders Lake Chad to the northeast.
29. Andrea Capone, 43, Italian footballer (Cagliari, Vincenza, Treviso). [2] (body discovered on this date) Rohan de Saram, 85, British-born Sri Lankan cellist. [3] (death announced on this date) Alton Meiring, 48, South African footballer (Cape Town Spurs, Manning Rangers, national team).
Location within Nigeria. Coordinates: 8°58′29″N 4°18′27″E / 8.97472°N 4.30750°E / 8.97472; 4.30750. Country. Nigeria. Settled. 14th Century. Founded by. Oranmiyan. Old Oyo, also known as Oyo-Ile, Katunga, Oyo-Oro, and Eyo is the site of a ruined medieval city that was once the capital [1] of the Oyo Empire in what is now ...
Kalakuta Republic was the name musician and political activist Fela Kuti gave to the communal compound that housed his family, band members, and recording studio. Located at 14 Agege Motor Road, Idi-Oro, Mushin, Lagos, Nigeria, it had a free health clinic, and recording facility. [1]
The three villages (Sutanuti, Gobindapur & Kalikata), particularly in Kalikata, where Calcutta is located, came into the possession of the British East India Company in 1690 and some scholars like to date its beginnings as a major city from the construction of Fort William by the British in 1698, though this is debated (see the court ruling in ...