Ngurno

A German map of J. H. Barth's 1850s travels in Bornu, showing "Ngornu" directly on the shore of a southern extension of Lake Chad.
A map of Rabih az-Zubayr's Bornu Empire in 1899, showing the area of Ngurno submerged beneath Lake Chad, southeast of Kukawa.
British Nigeria in 1911, showing "Ngornu" still serving as a regional center near Lake Chad.

Ngurno ("Blessing")[1] is a village in far northeastern Nigeria. It is administered as part of the Monguno LGA within Borno State and was formerly an important trading center of the Bornu Empire and Emirate.

  1. ^ Enc. Brit. (1910), p. 265.

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