Ngaoundéré
Province
Ngaoundéré ( German: Ngaundere ) is a city in northern Cameroon, situated on the edge of the highlands of Adamawa and capital of the province of Adamawa. It lies at an altitude of 1100 m and has 231 376 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2005). The town is the seat of a chieftain ( laamiido ) the Fulbe and has a meaning as an agricultural trade center, the seat of a University of Agriculture and Technology, with around 7,000 students and the location of jewelery making. Ngaoundéré is the seat of a Catholic bishop. The local Protestant Hospital collaborates with the University of Greifswald. In addition to a small airport can operate on the 737 medium-haul jets such as Boeing, found here the terminus of the line Douala - Ngaoundéré and the well-preserved old town of the Fulbe from the 19th century with a mosque and the palace of the laamiido.
History
The city was dominated by Islam essentially. Originally there was a Mboum group home whose settlement Ngaoukor in 1831 by the Islamic Fulani under the leadership of Ardo Njobdi b. Umaru was subjugated by Bundang. The Fulbe built the city from one of its key centers of power in what is now Cameroon. The Mboum population tried several times in vain to break away from the suzerainty of the Fulbe in the following decades.
1882 visited Robert Flegel probably the first European city, in January it was passed by the French colonial officer Louis -Alexandre Mizon. 1894 closed Ardo Muhammadu Abbo an initially inconsequential " protection contract " with the German geographer Siegfried Passarge
It was not until 1901, the city was occupied by German troops and killed at the time of the ruling Ardo Abbo. The colonial administration replaced it with the loyal Ardo May Ngaoundéré was part of the Residentur Adamawa, but remained only sporadically occupied by soldiers. Only in 1913 it was resolved in the course of an administrative reorganization in North Cameroon of Adamawa and seat own Residentur.