Ogbomosho (ōb
`môshô, ŏgbōmō`shō), city (1991 pop. 644,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for a farming region. Yams, cassava, corn, and tobacco are grown. Cotton is grown and used to weave cloth. Ogbomosho was founded in the 17th cent. It resisted Fulani Fulani , people of W Africa, numbering approximately 14 million. They are of mixed sub-Saharan African and Berber origin. First recorded as living in the Senegambia region, they are now scattered throughout the area of the Sudan from Senegal to Cameroon.
..... Click the link for more information. invasions in the early 19th cent. and grew by absorbing refugees from towns destroyed by the Fulani. A teachers college is in the city.
Ogbomosho
Ogbomosho
`môshô, ŏgbōmō`shō), city (1991 pop. 644,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for a farming region. Yams, cassava, corn, and tobacco are grown. Cotton is grown and used to weave cloth. Ogbomosho was founded in the 17th cent. It resisted Fulani Fulani , people of W Africa, numbering approximately 14 million. They are of mixed sub-Saharan African and Berber origin. First recorded as living in the Senegambia region, they are now scattered throughout the area of the Sudan from Senegal to Cameroon...... Click the link for more information. invasions in the early 19th cent. and grew by absorbing refugees from towns destroyed by the Fulani. A teachers college is in the city.
Ogbomosho
City (pop. 1995 est.: 711,900), southwestern Nigeria. Founded in the mid-17th century, it was an outpost of the Oyo empire until the Muslim Fulani conquests in the early 19th century. As a centre of resistance, the walled town attracted many Oyo refugees. Located northeast of Ibadan, it is one of Nigeria's largest urban centres. It is also a trading centre and rail junction.
Ogbomosho
a city in SW Nigeria: the third largest town in Nigeria; trading centre for an agricultural region. Pop.: 959 000 (2005 est.)
Ogbomosho
a city in Nigeria, in the Western Region. Population, 387,000 (1971). Highway junction. There is trade in cacao beans and in the products of oil-bearing palms. Ogbomo-sho has a footwear factory and cottage-industry production of fabrics.
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