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Izombe

Recorded in Imo. A register entry gathers the towns the sources list, the names borne there and the records the archive holds, instead of opening only one article.

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What the archive holds for Izombe

RegionImo
StateImo
DivisionRiverine Igbo
Ethnic groupIgbo
Recorded astown

It consists of Izombe itself, two small village groups and two villages.

It lies among the groups between the Orashi and Sombreiro rivers that once accepted Aboh as their overlord.

Sources

Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 49-51, Table IX, notes and Distinctive Features

Towns

The 1 town recorded inside Izombe

  • Izombe

Names

Names borne in Izombe

No names recorded

A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Izombe yet. This is the state of the name material rather than a statement about the names people bear.

Archive records

Photographs, oral testimony and documents connected to Izombe appear here with their provenance.

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