Enuga, Nigeria
Enugu, town, capital of Enugu state, south-central Nigeria, at the foot of the Udi Plateau.It is on the railroad from Port Harcourt, 150 miles south-southwest, and at the intersection of roads from Aba, Onitsha, and Abakaliki. The town owes its existence to the discovery of coal on the plateau in 1909, which led to the building of Port Harcourt. With the completion of the railway from the port in 1916, Enugu developed rapidly.
Its name, enu Ugwu, meaning “at the top of the hill,” comes from the traditional Igbo village of Enugu Ngwo on the plateau. The headquarters of the Eastern provinces and the regional capital of Eastern Nigeria, it served briefly as the provisional capital of the secessionist Republic of Biafra until its capture by federal troops.
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