Tillia
| Rural community of Tillia | |||
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| Coordinates | 16 ° 8 ' N , 4 ° 47' E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Niger | ||
| Tahoua | |||
| department | Tillia | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-5 | ||
| Residents | 23,187 (2010) | ||
Tillia is a rural municipality and the capital of the Tillia department of the same name in Niger .
geography
Tillia is mainly located in the northern Sahel zone and merges into the Sahara desert in the north . The municipality borders the neighboring state of Mali in the west . The neighboring communities in Niger are Ingall in the north, Tassara and Tchintabaraden in the east, Kao in the southeast, Affala , Takanamat and Tébaram in the south and Abala in the southwest. The municipality is divided into twelve administrative villages, two traditional villages, seven hamlets, 22 camps and 17 water points. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Tillia.
history
Tillia received 1964 the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) in the area of the arrondissement of Tchintabaraden, the later department of Tchintabaraden .
In 1991, the Dakar Rally led via Tillia. In 1992 there was a serious clash between the armed forces of Niger and the Aïr and Azawad Liberation Front , in which one soldier and six rebels were killed.
The rural community of Tillia was founded as an administrative unit in 2002 as part of a state-wide administrative reform in an area that was previously free of a community. The administrative post of Tillia was removed from the Tchintabaraden department in 2011 and elevated to the Tillia department.
population
At the 2001 census, Tillia had 17,210 inhabitants. For 2010, 23,187 inhabitants were calculated.
Culture and sights
Every two years in October there is a festival of Arab cattle breeders in Tillia and the neighboring municipality of Tassara .
Economy and Infrastructure
Pasture farming is practiced south of the desert area. In the extreme south of the parish the zone of agropastoralism begins . There is a cattle market in each of the villages of Tillia and Télemces. Market day in Tillia, where the breeders sell their animals themselves, is Saturday and in Télemces it is Wednesday.
Town twinning
- Andéramboukane in Mali (since 2006)
- Laxou in France (since 2008)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed November 8, 2010.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
- ↑ Dakar Retrospective 1979–2007. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Amaury Sport Organization, archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (English).
- ^ André Salifou : La question touarègue au Niger . Karthala, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86537-434-3 , pp. 122 .
- ↑ Une nouvelle loi sur le redécoupage administratif . In: L'Arbre à Palabres . No. 13 , August 11, 2011, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed on January 28, 2014]).
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Présentation de Tahoua, région phare de la sixième édition du SAFEM 2009 ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 887 kB). P. 6, SAFEM website , accessed on March 5, 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mahamadou Saley, Yatta Paul Maurice Mohamed: Projet Régional d'Appui au Pastoralisme au Sahel (PRAPS). Etude diagnostique des Systèmes d'Information sur les marchés à bétail du Burkina Faso, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad. Définitif report. (PDF) CILSS , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2018 (French).
