Kirtachi

Kirtachi rural community
Kirtachi rural community
Coordinates	12 ° 48 '  N , 2 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 12 ° 48 '  N , 2 ° 29'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Collo
Residents	33,955 (2010)

Kirtachi ( English spelling: Kirtashi , German outdated: Kirotaschi ) is a rural community in the Kollo department in Niger .

geography

Kirtachi is located on the Niger River in the Sudan countryside . The neighboring communities are Kouré in the north, Fakara , Fabidji and Falmey in the east and Say and Tamou in the west. The World Natural Heritage National Park W extends south of Kirtachi . The municipality is divided into 25 administrative villages and 38 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is Kirtachi, consisting of the administrative villages of Kirtachi Seybou and Kirtachi Zéno.

history

Kirtachi ("Kirotaschi") in Stieler's Hand Atlas (1891)

Kirtachi was founded by a Zarma named Afoda in the early 19th century . The name Kirtachi is a combination of the words kiro , which means "bird", and tachi , which can be translated as "sandbar" or "sand dune". In 1895 in Kirtachi Ernst von Carnap-Quernheimb , who was to expand the sphere of influence of the German Empire in the race for Africa from the south , met Georges-Joseph Toutée , who was traveling on behalf of France . The German advance in this region of Africa was thus stopped. In 1903, France set up a military base in Kirtachi that had previously been in the unsafe border town of Gaya . Kirtachi provided the French with a convenient location to monitor the caravan trade from Say . In the first half of the 20th century there was a dispute between two brothers in the village of Kirtachi Zéno, whereupon the younger left the place and founded the village of Kirtachi Seybou. The rural community of Kirtachi emerged from the Kirtachi Canton in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.

population

At the 2001 census, Kirtachi had 24,314 residents. For 2010, 33,955 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced.

literature

• Paul Cocou Esse: Contribution à l'identification des contraintes majeures de baisse de fertilité des sols à Sounga Dossado et tentatives d'amélioration par le travail du sol . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1996.

Web links

Commons : Kirtachi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Barth: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa . Fourth volume. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 577 .
2. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. 
3. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 90.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jöelle Hauzeur, Laurent Pellé: Fleuve Niger. Toponymie et geographie récentes du W de Kirtachi à Boumba . In: Journal des africanistes , 63rd edition, Paris 1993, p. 53.
6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 64.
7. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 235.
8. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 56.
9. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.