Igbo · Town · Riverine Igbo
Ossissa
Recorded in Delta. 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 Ossissa
| Region | Delta |
|---|---|
| State | Delta |
| Division | Riverine Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | town |
Its founder is remembered as part of the Aboh migration.
Its founder is remembered as part of the migration that made Aboh.
In Aboh's own tradition, Ossissa is the first place its founder reached before moving on to Ashaka and then to Aboh. The Ossissa founder is remembered as belonging to the same movement as Aboh's.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 49-51, Table IX and notes
Towns
The 1 town recorded inside Ossissa
- Ossissa
Names
Names borne in Ossissa
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Ossissa 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 Ossissa appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Ossissa · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
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