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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 918 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIDA , a See also:

town and administrative See also:district in the See also:British See also:protectorate of See also:Northern See also:Nigeria. Bida town, situated in 9° 5' N., 6° E., 25 M. N. by E. of Muraji on the See also:Niger, is the See also:capital of the See also:province of See also:Nupe. It was founded in 1859 when See also:Fula See also:rule was established in Nupe, is walled and of considerable See also:size. In 1909 it was connected by railway with Baro, 40 M. S.S.E., the See also:river See also:terminus of the Northern Nigeria railway. The inhabitants, mostly See also:Hausa, carry on an extensive See also:trade and are especially noted for their embossed See also:brass and See also:copper See also:work. The Bida goblets, in which brass and copper are beautifully blended, are of extremely elegant See also:design. The town also boasts a See also:glass factory. The preparation of See also:indigo and the See also:dyeing of cloths are other flourishing See also:industries. The streets are planted with huge shade-trees, so that as Bida is approached it looks like a See also:forest. In 1897 there was a two-days' fight outside the walls of Bida between the forces of the emir of Nupe and those of the Royal Niger See also:Company, ending in the defeat of the Fula See also:army (mostly See also:cavalry).

The victory was not followed at the See also:

time by a British occupation, and the defeated See also:king returned after the withdrawal of the company's troops and re-established himself upon the See also:throne. In 'goo he allied himself with other hostile chiefs and adopted an openly antagonistic attitude to the British See also:government. In 1901 it became necessary for British troops to See also:march on Bida. The emir fled, without fighting, to See also:Kano. Another emir was appointed in his See also:place, and the province of Nupe was placed under British administrative See also:control. Since that date the town has been peaceful and very prosperous. A See also:mission school has been established, and is attended by the sons of the emir and of the See also:principal chiefs, who are desirous of learning to read and. write See also:English. The administrative district of Bida includes the town and is the western See also:division of the province of Nupe (q.v.).

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