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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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IBADAN , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

West See also:

Africa, in Yorubaland, See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

NIGERIA

Nigeria, 123 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.E. of See also:

LAGOS

Lagos, and about 50 M. N.E. of See also:

ABEOKUTA

Abeokuta. Pop. (1910 estimated at 150,000. The town occupies the slope of a See also:

hill, and stretches into the valley through which the See also:

RIVER

river Ona flows. It is enclosed by mud walls, which have a See also:

CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit of 18 m., and is encompassed by cultivated See also:

LAND

land 5 or 6 m. in breadth. The native houses are all See also:

low, thatched structures, enclosing a square See also:

court, and the only break in the mud See also:

wall is the See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door. There are numerous mosques, orishas (idol-houses) and open spaces shaded with trees. There are a few buildings in the See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

style. Most of the inhabitants are engaged in See also:

agriculture ; but a See also:

GREAT

great variety of handicrafts is also carried on. Ibadan is the See also:

capital of one of the Yoruba states and enjoys a large measure of See also:

AUTONOMY (Gr. abr6s, self, and v6pos, law)

autonomy. Nominally the See also:

state is subject to the alafin (ruler) of Oyo; but it is virtually See also:

INDEPENDENT

The See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration is in the hands of two chiefs, a See also:

CIVIL

civil and a military, the See also:

bale and the balogun; these together See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the highest court of See also:

APPEAL

appeal. There is also an iyaloda or See also:

MOTHER

mother of the town, to whom are submitted all the disputes of the See also:

WOMEN

women. Ibadan See also:

long had a See also:

FEUD

feud with Abeokuta, but on the See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the British See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate the intertribal See also:

WARS

wars were stopped. In 1862 the See also:

PEOPLE

people of Ibadan destroyed ljaya, a neighbouring town of 6o,000 inhabitants. A British See also:

RESIDENT

resident and a detachment of See also:

HAUSA

Hausa troops are stationed at Ibadan. See also YORUBAS, ABEOKUTA and LAGOS.

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