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Aguleri

Recorded in Anambra. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.

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Named in the title · AguleriThe Ikolo: A Sacred Sonic Symbol of Aguleri’s Cultural and Spiritual HeritageRead article →Named in the title · AguleriAguleri: The Cradle of Igbo Civilization and Cultural HeritageRead article →Named in the text · AguleriThe Strong Role The Igbo Women Played In our Pre-Colonial Time To Boost The Igbo Economy Through FarmingRead article →Named in the text · AguleriCultural Artifacts of Igbo Society: Ikenga and OfoRead article →Named in the text · AguleriIjele Masquerade: The Largest and Most Revered Masquerade in Igbo LandRead article →Named in the text · AguleriAnam: Origins of a Riverine Igbo CommunityRead article →Named in the text · AguleriAfa Divination — The Window Into The Metaphysical Used by Dibia’s in IgbolandRead article →Named in the text · AguleriThe Name “Anambra” Is Not New: A Look at Its Indigenous and Colonial OriginsRead article →Named in the text · AguleriEgwu Ogene: The Heartbeat of Igbo Culture and MusicRead article →Named in the text · AguleriThe Riverine Igbo People: Culture, Economy, and History of the Water-Loving Communities around River NigerRead article →Named in the text · AguleriMost Iconic Historical Sites In Igbo Land :Story Of Our Ancestral HeritageRead article →Named in the text · AguleriDiscovering Anioma: A Unique Cultural Identity in NigeriaRead article →Named in the text · AguleriPreserving Cultural Heritage: The Story of OssomalaRead article →Named in the text · AguleriNgene: The Guardian Spirit of Igbo FamiliesRead article →Named in the text · AguleriChief of Iboria[?] Ibo,” photographed by William Henry Crosse, part of the Royal Niger Company, 1886 – 1895. ΜΑΑ Cambridge.Read article →Named in the text · AguleriIgwe Okoye Odili: (Okoye Chief): The First Warrant Chief of UmueriRead article →Named in the text · AguleriUmueri: The Ancestral Homeland Of Eri & The Children of EriRead article →Named in the text · AguleriOfo ńa Ogu: Spiritual Foundation of Igbo Religious Belief.Read article →Named in the text · AguleriOgbunike: A Historical and Cultural Town in Anambra StateRead article →Named in the text · AguleriKing Idigo and the Encounter with Christian Missionaries in 19th-Century IgbolandRead article →Named in the text · AguleriOfo in Igbo Culture: Symbol of Truth, Justice, and Ancestral AuthorityRead article →

Read as: Aguleri, Agoleri. Counted where the name is written with a capital, because a lower-case occurrence of a name that is also an ordinary word is the word.

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What the archive holds for Aguleri

RegionAnambra
StateAnambra
DivisionNorthern Igbo
Ethnic groupIgbo
Recorded astown

The ancestral seat of the Umu-Eri, in the Anambra valley, held to be where Eri settled and where the Ezeora dynasty of Enugwu Aguleri has its line.

Aguleri is the town the Umu-Eri tradition makes its own beginning: Eri is said to have settled at Eri-aka in the Anambra valley within it and to have married there, and the Ezeora dynasty that descends from his eldest son Agulu is seated at Enugwu Aguleri.

It is "Agoleri", spelling the name as it heard it, among the three communities it groups under Umueri — which is why an entry for the town of Aguleri is missing from a registry that has one for its neighbour Umueri and for the fraternity both belong to. The town is also the point at which the tradition places the cutting of the boundary between the Igala and the Igbo, on the Anambra river.

Sources

Wikipedia, "Eri (king)" (archived 2022-10-24); Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, Table I note 12 (as "Agoleri")

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