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Lagos - Nigeria
Lagos is the largest town in Nigeria and was capital to 1991. With 8.789.00 inhabitants in the real town and 10,692,484 in the agglomeration Lagos is part of the largest towns of Africa next to Cairo.
Story of Lagos
Today's Lagos was discovered in 1472 of the Portuguese seafarer Ruy de Sequeira and was called Eko at that time. This island was, then extended to a branch of a trading organization this one Lagos then got the name, called to a small village in the south of Portugal. Lagos served as a mooring for merchant ships first and was settled by the people the Yoruba only in the 16th century. The field of the Obas of Lagos into the dominion of the Obas of Benin, the great power then at the golf of Benin, which took an active slave trade with the Portuguese got little later.
Lagos developed according to the general ban on the slave trade by France in 1794 and Great Britain in 1807 to a gathering point for slaves since these could be hidden from the Patroullienschiffen there better. After the submission of Lagos by the English naval forces in 1861 Lagos became a British patronage field affiliated for the British West african colonial empire and managed from the Gold Coast. In 1886 Lagos has become an independent colony and was subordinate to a British governor.
In 1906 the patronage was put for south-nigeria under the administration of the colony in the course of the consolidation of the British colonial empire which was exploited by the Royal Niger company till now and the patronage Nordnigeria also was put under the authority of the governor by Lagos in 1914. The largest portion of today's Nigeria has been governed centrally from Lagos with that.
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