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DECLARED MONUMENTS IN NIGERIA
City Wall, Zaria:
Of the cities of Northern Nigeria, the one that retains perhaps the best
preserved walls is the city of Zaria.
Since the British occupation of the Western Sudan at the beginning of
the present century the need for defensive walls has gone and the rains
of over fifty wet seasons have battered down the tall mud ramparts of
the Northern cities until in some places they have disappeared altogether.
The walls of Zaria circumnavigate the city are between nine and ten miles
long and are pierced by eight gates
Declaration:
Declared Historic Monument on 23rd April, 1959.
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