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Ibere

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

Connected writing

Histories about Ibere

The archive links no published history to Ibere yet. Its neighbours’ histories are not shown here, because a link to another community is not a history of this one.

Named in other records

Histories that mention Ibere

No published record in this archive names Ibere in its own words.

Read as: Ibere. 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.

The record

What the archive holds for Ibere

RegionAbia
StateAbia
DivisionSouthern Igbo
Ethnic groupIgbo
Recorded asclan

The group has eleven local communities.

Its leading community is Mbinyang, a name that is an Ibibio word. Ibere is classed with Bende and Obero among the original Enyong Ibibio communities absorbed by Igbo incomers from the west.

Sources

Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, p. 43, Table V and notes

Archive records

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