Ile Ife
Also known as Ife
Ifẹ̀ ( , also called Ilé-Ifẹ̀) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria founded sometime between the years 1000 BC and 500 BC. By 900 AD, the city had become an important West African emporium producing sophisticated art forms. The city is located in present-day Osun State. Ifẹ̀ is about 218 kilometers northeast of Lagos with a population of over 500,000 people, which is the highest in Osun State according to population census of 2006.
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Understand
thumb|The Ade-Are crown in Ile Ife Ife Ife is the cradle of the Yoruba civilisation, the ancestral home of the race and therefore called "Land of the Source". The progenitor of the Yoruba race is Oduduwa.
Get in
From Lagos, a shared car costs ₦3,500-4,000 per person.
See
thumb|Palace of the current Ooni of Ife thumb|Opa Oromiyan thumb|Oduduwa groove where Oduduwa is believed to have descended
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Osun Oshogbo Ilesha Ibadan Ilorin
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Origin of Ife: Creation of the world
- Origin of the regional states: Dispersal from the holy city
- Traditional setting
- The King (''Ooni'' of Ile-Ife)
- Cults of Divinities
- Shrines, altars, and temples
- Archaeology
- Government
- Geography
- Climate
- Temperature
- Cloud cover
- Precipitation
- Economy
- Education
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Ifẹ̀ ( , also called Ilé-Ifẹ̀) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria founded sometime between the years 1000 BC and 500 BC. By 900 AD, the city had become an important West African emporium producing sophisticated art forms. The city is located in present-day Osun State. Ifẹ̀ is about 218 kilometers northeast of Lagos with a population of over 500,000 people, which is the highest in Osun State according to population census of 2006.
thumb|250px|A short introductory expose of Ile Ife in the Ufẹ̀ dialect by a native speaker
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