Gothèye

Region

Gothèye (also: Gothey, Gothéye ) is a rural municipality and the capital of the eponymous department Gothèye in Niger.

Geography

Gothèye located in the southern Sahel zone south of the regional capital Tilabéri on the Niger River. The neighboring municipalities are Tilabéri and Zinder in the north, Kourteye in the east, the south and Namaro Dargol in the West.

The municipality is divided into 40 administrative villages, 20 traditional villages, 54 hamlets and a warehouse. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Gothèye.

History

The villages Saya and Zara Koiré in the municipality of Gothèye were among those places in present-day Niger, where settled after the fall of the Songhai Songhai - Eich 1591 refugees under a descendant of the former ruling dynasty Askia.

By 1844 Gothèye was attacked by Silanké, a subgroup of the Fulani, who came from Dori in Liptako. They were assisted by a strong contingent Zarma support. An alliance of Songhai and Tuareg defeated the attackers. The Tuareg under their leader Sinafal expelled the Silanké up to the walls of Say. The German explorer Heinrich Barth visited several villages in Gothèye 1854, for which he used the spelling " Goth ". Barth described, among other things, surrounded by cornfields Fulbe village Kassani ( "Ka - ssánni " ), the villages Bossia ( "bo -sse " ) and Hondobon ( " Hendōbo "). 1899 reached the area of Gothèye as part of the newly created circle Sinder ( cercle de Sinder ) under French military administration.

1964 was divided into seven administrative reform Niger departments, the predecessor of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessor of the later departments. Gothèye was added to the newly created district Téra, received but - as Bankilaré - the status of an administrative post ( poste administratif ) within the territory of the arrondissement. Administrative posts were special territorial units one level below arrondissements that were regarded as a kind of precursor to a later conversion into a separate district. In 1998, the former arrondissements of Niger were converted into departments. The administrative village Larba Birno was affected by the floods in West and Central Africa in 2010. There, 294 inhabitants were classified as disaster victims. The administrative posts of Gothèye was removed in 2011 from the Department Téra and collected at the Department Gothèye.

Population

At the 2001 census Gothèye had 64 656 inhabitants. For the year 2010 85.526 inhabitants were calculated.

In Gothèye the Zarma dialect Kaado is spoken.

Economy and infrastructure

Along the river wet rice is cultivated. The rest of the community area lies in a zone prevails in the rainfed agriculture. By Gothèye the National Road 4, which connects the village with the neighboring community Namaro and the border with Burkina Faso at Téra runs.

Partner community

• Vernet - les-Bains in France