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Opi
Recorded in Enugu. 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.
The record
What the archive holds for Opi
| Region | Enugu |
|---|---|
| State | Enugu |
| Local government | Nsukka |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | town |
| Part of | Omabe (section) |
Opi is a town of the Nsukka country in Enugu State, one of the three towns of the Omabe group with Lejja and Obimo. Its iron smelting furnaces date to 750 BC, and the town is divided into three autonomous communities across two local government wards.
Opi is iron country. Its furnaces are dated to 750 BC, and they worked on a scale that left slag blocks of up to forty-seven kilograms — the ore was smelted in natural-draft furnaces, the molten waste drained through shallow channels into pits, and the temperatures reached between 1,155 and 1,450 degrees. The site is one of the group that makes the Nsukka plateau the earliest iron-working region in this part of Africa, with Lejja beside it and Igbo Ukwu's bronzes downstream of the same craft.
The town is three autonomous communities in two local government wards, and it belongs with Lejja and Obimo in the Omabe cultural group.
Sources
Wikipedia, "Opi (archaeological site)"
Towns
The 3 towns recorded inside Opi
- Opi
- Opi-Agu
- Opi-Nsukka
Names
Names borne in Opi
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Opi 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 Opi appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Opi · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Opi · the migrated subject label of the same name
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