IBADAN  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

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
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

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, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low, thatched structures, enclosing a square See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

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

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

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
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

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

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture ; but a See also:

• GREAT

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

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

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
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

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

• INDEPENDENT

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
• BALE, JOHN (1495-1563)

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, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

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 .