Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Maryland County is a county in the southeastern portion of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has two districts . Harper serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring 887 square miles (2,300 km 2 ). [ 2 ]
Harper was the capital of the Republic of Maryland, an independent country (1834–1857), the last component of modern Liberia.. Cape Palmas, the region of which Harper is the center, is one of the traditional hometowns of the Americo-Liberians, descendants of free people of color and freed slaves from the United States who settled in Liberia and declared it an independent country in 1847.
The Maryland ritual killings were a series of ritualistic murders that occurred around Harper, Maryland County, Liberia in the 1970s. The crimes have been regarded as "Liberia's most notorious ritual killing case" due to the number of murders, the involvement of high ranking government officials and their subsequent public executions. [1]
Lofa County [d] 9 Margibi: Kakata: 304,946 1,010 sq mi (2,600 km 2) 4 1985 Montserrado County 10 Maryland: Harper: 172,202 886 sq mi (2,290 km 2) 2 1857 Maryland County [b] 11 Montserrado: Bensonville: 1,920,914 737 sq mi (1,910 km 2) 17 1839 Montserrado County [b] 12 Nimba: Sanniquellie: 621,841 4,459 sq mi (11,550 km 2) 6 1964 Nimba County [a ...
The Clans of Liberia were local political units created by the central government as part of its efforts to extend its authority and influence into the interior of the country. [ 7 ] As the tier of administrative government beneath the districts of Liberia , the clan structure only loosely corresponded to historic local political entities.
The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia.
The city of Harper, Liberia (established 1835 by the Maryland State Colonization Society) extends to the northeast inland along the estuary of the Hoffman, providing a small harbor; the Hoffman Station settlement is on the right bank. The name Cape Palmas is generalized to indicate the entire surrounding region of Maryland County.
Maryland-1 is an electoral district for the elections to the House of Representatives of Liberia. It is located in a southern portion of Maryland County, encompassing the county's coast, as well as bordering Grand Kru County and the Ivory Coast. It contains the county capital, Harper. [3]