{"id":7593,"date":"2022-08-25T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijabiography.com\/?post_type=history-culture&p=7593"},"modified":"2022-08-25T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:53:58","slug":"history-of-enugu-state","status":"publish","type":"history-culture","link":"https:\/\/naijabiography.com\/history-culture\/history-of-enugu-state\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Enugu State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Enugu State is one of the states that were established in the early 6,000 BC<\/strong>, and the historic evidence can be seen Okigwe-Nsukka axis.<\/strong> The present-day Enugu State is an attraction of what the earliest inhabitants who sojourned in the state building. One such instance is the historic objects based on early pottery work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another pottery work from the creation of the state is being excavated by a team led by Thurstan Shaw<\/strong> in 1978 <\/strong>from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,<\/strong> who uncovered a rock quarry which was a mine for tools and pottery making for a ‘stone civilization’ at nearby Ibagwa<\/strong> in the present day Igbo-Eze South Local Government of Enugu State.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to research, Enugu State has its origin from the early Igboland dwellers <\/strong>with not many centralized chiefdoms or kingdoms, especially in the Wawa area of Igboland. At the time, the people were mainly organized into clans, lineages, and village affiliations. Thus, the greater part of the Enugu people has heterogeneous relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enugu State, which in the Igbo language is called Ora Enugu<\/strong>, is a state in Nigeria’s South-East geopolitical zone<\/strong> that is bordered to the north <\/strong>by the states of Benue <\/a>and Kogi<\/a>, to the east and southeast<\/strong> by the state of Ebonyi<\/strong>, to the south by the state of Abia<\/strong>, and to the west by the state of Anambra<\/a>. Thus, research reveals that the largest city and state capital, Enugu<\/strong>, serves as the source of the state’s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, Enugu State is the\u00a0 29th largest in the area and the 22nd most populous<\/strong>, with an estimated population of over 4.4 million as of 2016.<\/strong> However, the Igbos (Ibos) constitute the majority of the state\u2019s population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this piece, Naijabiography <\/strong>narrates the history and culture of the Enugu people, including their economy and territory.<\/p>\n\n\n