Mirriah
| Mirriah township | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 42 ' N , 9 ° 9' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Mirriah | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-7 | ||
| Residents | 58,878 (2010) | ||
Mirriah (official spelling; also Miria , Miriah , Mirria and Myrriah ) is a borough and the capital of the Mirriah department in Niger .
geography
Mirriah is located in the Sahel zone , around 20 kilometers from the regional capital Zinder . The neighboring communities of Mirriah are Gaffati in the northwest, Zermou in the northeast, Hamdara in the east, Wacha in the southeast, Gouna in the southwest and Kolléram in the west. The municipality is divided into 44 traditional villages, 37 administrative villages, 17 hamlets and nine camps. Around Mirriah there are gardens with baobabs , mango trees and vegetable patches. The Forêt classée d'Ilbaram is a 56 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Mirriah. It was placed under protection in 1956.
history
The name of the city comes from the Hausa language and means "voice".
Mirriah became the seat of an independent Sossébaki state under the ruler Bazaza in 1774. The Hausa dynasty of the Sossébaki traced their centuries-old rule back to a prince from Bornu . Bazaza died fighting his uncle in 1784. Subsequently, until 1817, Bazaza's brother Ibel took power in Mirriah, which under his reign put the large neighboring city of Zinder in the shade. His son and successor Mohamed Kosso was defeated in 1821 by Sultan Sélimane dan Tintouma von Zinder and driven into exile in Sokoto . The Sultan appointed May Nassara, another son of Ibel, to be ruler of Mirriah. Mohamed Kosso managed to return for a few months, but finally had to surrender to his brother, who ruled Mirriah as vassal of the sultan until 1837.
Under Djibril dan Lafia, who had been in power since 1897, Mirriah was assigned as a canton to the French province of Zinder. When the French took control of the large market in the city and were now responsible for collecting taxes, the number of traders fell from over 2,000 to 400. The Sossébaki rulers have been cantons and traditional local chiefs ( chefs traditional ) by Mirriah. The 18th ruler of Mirriah since Bazaza, the former Speaker of Parliament Moutari Moussa , was elected in 2008.
In addition to its role as a traditional seat of power, Mirriah gained importance as a regional administrative seat in the independent Republic of Niger. The capital of the Zinder arrondissement was moved to Mirriah in 1966 and the arrondissement was also renamed Mirriah. In 1998, the Mirriah department emerged from the Mirriah arrondissement. Mirriah received the status of an independent municipality as early as 1988, together with nine other Nigerien towns. By then there had been twelve parishes nationwide.
population
At the 1977 census, Mirriah had 8,420 inhabitants, at the 1988 census 13,225 inhabitants and at the 2001 census 18,783 inhabitants. For the year 2010, after an enlargement of the municipality area, 58,878 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the Hausa subgroup Sossébaki, which specializes in arable farming, and the Hausa subgroup Magouzawa, who practice arable farming, agropastoralism and remote grazing , as well as members of the Fulbe subgroup Bornanko'en and Ichiruareg subgroups Kanimatane and Ichiruareg subgroups live in Mirriah .
Culture and sights
In the center of the village, west of the Sultan's homestead, is the Friday Mosque of Mirriah, a courtyard mosque in the barren, Middle-Nigerian style. Their year of construction is not known. The associated eight meter high minaret is dated to 1750 and is still an original part of the old clay building. However, it shows considerable signs of deterioration on the stairs. The prayer room complex was modernized in the 1980s using cement blocks and a corrugated iron roof. Doors and shutters are made of metal. The mihrab -Vorbau is cuboid, the Minbar two stages. The entire facility extends over 265 square meters, with just under 200 square meters in the inner prayer room alone. There is an expansive neem tree in the courtyard .
Economy and Infrastructure
Due to the clay-rich soil, Mirriah is a center for pottery, which is made by men and women. Every Sunday is market day. Mirriah is the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the 30 civil courts nationwide , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance). The city is located on National Road 1 , which connects Ayérou in the west with N'Guigmi in the east of the country.
Personalities
- Moutari Moussa (* 1948), politician
literature
- Z. Adamou: Dynamique de l'occupation de l'espace agraire dans un paysage sahélien: cas du Kwari de Falki (commune de Mirriah) . Mémoire de maîtrise. Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1996.
- Mahaman Aminou Magagi: Accessibility of the nutritionnels au Niger program. Cas de la commune de Mirriah . Mémoire. Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2014.
- Saley Maman: Contribution à l'étude de l'histoire des Hausa: les Etats tsotsebaki des origines au XIXe siècle . Dissertation. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 1994.
- Margaret Overholt Saunders: Marriage and Divorce in a Muslim Hausa Town: Mirria, Niger . Dissertation. Indiana University, 1978.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. . Website of the Institut National de la Statistique, accessed on January 22, 2011.
- ↑ a b Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 223.
- ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
- ↑ a b Siradji Sanda: Mirriah: au pays des Tsotsébaki, l'histoire se conjugue au présent. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. December 23, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 20, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 132-133.
- ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 39 .
- ^ Frédéric Giraut: Retour du refoulé et effet chef-lieu. Analysis d'une refonte politico-administrative virtual au Niger . PRODIG, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901560-38-5 , pp. 35 ( PDF file [accessed August 17, 2013]).
- ↑ Historique de la decentralization au Niger ( Memento of the original of October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 93 kB). Website of the program nigéro-allemand de lutte contre la pauvreté dans les zones de Tillabéri et Tahoua-Nord, published May 2008, accessed on 21 January 2012.
- ↑ World Gazetteer: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Mirriah ), accessed on January 7, 2010.
- ^ Institut national de la statistique (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendence du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 57.
- ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009 ( online version ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 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; 11, 3 MB), pp. 30 and 32–33.
- ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, p. 354 and 360 .
- ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.
