Ngazargamu
Abandoned village · Nigeria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 13.047, 12.228
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: archaeological site in Yobe State, Nigeria
History
Birni Ngazargamu, also called Gazargamu, Gazargamo, Ngazargamo, and N'gazargamu, was the capital of the Kanem–Bornu Empire from the city's foundation in the 15th century to its destruction and abandonment in the Fula jihads in the early 19th century. Ngazargamu was situated in the fork of the Komadugu Gana River and the Komadugu Yobe, near present-day Geidam, 150 km (93 mi) west of Lake Chad in the Yobe State of modern Nigeria.