Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (İgbo dilinde: Diobu,[1][2] Iguocha[3][4] veya Ugwuocha;[5][6][7]) Nijerya'nın Rivers Eyaleti'nin başkenti olan şehir. Bonny Nehri boyunca uzanan şehir Nijer Deltası'nda yer almaktadır. 2006 Nijerya nüfus sayımına göre Port Harcourt 1.382.592 nüfusa sahiptir. Port Harcourt ismi 1913 yılında Iguocha dan değiştirilip Koloni Eyalet Sekreteri olan Lewis Vernon Harcourt'un soyadına ithafen verilmiştir.[3][7]

Kaynakça

  1. ↑ Njoku, Onwuka N (October 2008). "Eastern Nigeria Under British Rule" (PDF). Department of History, University of Nigeria (University of Nigeria, Nsukka): 23. http://repository.unn.edu.ng/index.php/Download-document/8785-Eastern-Nigeria-Under-British-Rule.html.
  2. ↑ Isichei, Elizabeth Allo (1976). A history of the Igbo people. Macmillan. s. 200. ISBN 0-312-37975-7.
  3. 1 2 Walker, Gilbert (1959). "Traffic and Transport in Nigeria". Colonial research studies (Her Majesty's Stationery Office) (27): 28–29.
  4. ↑ Jaekel, Francis (1997). Opening the nation to sea, air and road transportation. 1—3. Michigan State Univ Press. s. 125. ISBN 9-782-46314-0.
  5. ↑ McCall, John Christensen (2000). Dancing histories: heuristic ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo. University of Michigan Press. s. 75. ISBN 0-472-11070-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=hHTE0UWRdLQC&pg=PA75.
  6. ↑ Ohadike, Don C. (1994). Anioma: a social history of the Western Igbo people. Ohio University Press. s. 15. ISBN 0-821-41072-5.
  7. 1 2 Okafor, S.O. (January 1973). "The Port Harcourt Issue: A Note on Dr Tamuno's Article" (PDF). African Affairs. Royal African Society (Oxford University Press) 72 (286): 74. http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/72/286/73.full.pdf.

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