Illo
Sign in to savethumbnail|right|Location of Illo in the Borgu region. Illo is a town in Kebbi State, Nigeria.
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- human settlement
- Country
- Nigeria
- Official language
- English language
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- 1905 Borgu 1d local stamp with stamps of Northern Nigeria used on piece via Zungeru.jpg
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- Pre-colonial history
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thumbnail|right|Location of Illo in the Borgu region. Illo is a town in Kebbi State, Nigeria.
==Pre-colonial history== Illo was one of the Northern Borgu Kingdoms, small but wealthy, and it fought a number of wars with its neighbors in the nineteenth century including the Samba War and conflicts with Gwandu of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Illo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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