Saga Gassia Kouara

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Neighborhood
Saga Kouara Gassia
Coordinates 13 ° 28 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 28 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey IV
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 6664 (2012)

Saga Gassia Kouara (also: Saga Gassia Kwara , Saga Gassiya ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey IV of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Saga Gassia Kouara is located in the south of the urban parish of Niamey on the Niger River . The neighborhood is part of the historical center of Saga .

history

Saga Gassia Kouara was founded at the end of the 16th century as one of the four oldest neighborhoods in Saga, according to the local chronicle. The other three are Saga Fondobon , Saga Goungou, and Saga Sambou Koira . The founder of Saga Gassia Kouara is Gassia Moussa, a son of the founder of Saga, Moussa Zarmakoye.

population

At the 2012 census, Saga Gassia Kouara had 6,664 inhabitants who lived in 1,067 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 2,172 in 336 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 3,286 in 428 households.

literature

  • Gabriella Körling: In Search of the State. An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger (=  Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology . No. 51 ). Uppsala University, Uppsala 2011, ISBN 978-91-554-8127-8 (and diva-portal.org [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriella Körling: In Search of the State. An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger (=  Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology . No. 51 ). Uppsala University, Uppsala 2011, ISBN 978-91-554-8127-8 , pp. 85 ( uu.diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 9, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 717 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  3. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  4. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 225 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).