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Abor or ABOR may refer to: * Abor, Enugu, a town in Ojebogene L.G.A., Enugu, Nigeria * Abor, Ghana, a town in the Volta Region of Ghana * Abor Hills, Arunāchal Pradesh * Abor people (other), multiple uses * Abor Formation, located in the Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India * Academic Bill of Rights, a US campaign for certain rights for students See also * Abora Abora is the name of an ancestral solar deity of La Palma (Canary Islands) and a traditional god of the Guanches. Supreme being Abora (Ibru) is the name of the supreme being of the religion of the Guanches on the island of La Palma. In Guan ... * Arbor (other) {{disambig, geo ...
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Abor, Enugu
Abor is a town in southeastern Nigeria, located in Enugu State near the city of Enugu (city), Enugu. Abor is located on the Old Enugu-Nsukka Road, an important thoroughfare for travelers heading to northern Nigeria from the east. It consists of eight separate villages. Education Abor is home to two Catholic parishes and three high schools: Chist High School, St Thereasa Girls Secondary, and Girls Technical School. Villages The eight villages that make up Abor are Ugwunani, Ozalla, Amukwu, Dinigweze, Dinunobe, Ubiekpo, Amezike, and Umuavulu. Umuavulu Village: one of the eight that make up Abor, is known for her industrious people. Umuavulu Village has 13 hamlets: Umuozor, Ubom, Eziagu, Nzuko, Umuoka, Uwenu na uwani, Umuikwo, Umuezike, Amaogwu, Ohemje, Aragu, Aguma, Orobo, and Ezionyia. Each is equivalent to a town of its own. Ubiekpo: Comprises six hamlets: Umuozor, Onuodagwu, Umudioku, Umuozi, Amaekwulu na Ebouwani, and Amagu. Industry Umuezeani village, another of Abor's c ...
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Abor, Ghana
Abor (Abaw, Abↄ) is a town in the Keta Municipal District of the Volta Region in southeast Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t .... Abor lies east of the Volta River and just north of the Keta Lagoon. Abor is known for Abor Senior High School, often referred to as ABORSCO. The school is a second cycle institution. History Abor is home to the Anlo Ewe people who migrated there in the later part of the seventeenth century.Amenumey, D. E. K. (1968) "The Extension of British Rule to Anlo (South-East Ghana)" ''The Journal of African History'' 9(1): pp. 997–117JSTOR copy/ref> They formed the Anlo Kingdom of which Abor was a part. From the European perspective Abor was a part of the Dutch "area of influence" of Keta beginning about 1784, until ...
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Abor Hills
The Abor Hills is a region of Arunachal Pradesh in the far northeast of India, near the border with China. The hills are bordered by the Mishmi Hills and Miri Hills, and drained by the Dibang River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra. During the British Raj, the hills had a reputation as a troublesome area, and military expeditions were sent against the residents in the 1890s. The region was administered as the Abor Hills District from 1948, with headquarters at Pasighat, but later reorganized into the Lower Dibang Valley and Lohit districts. Colonial history The Abor Hills are a tract of country on the north-east frontier of India, which was occupied by an independent tribe, the Adi people The Adi people are one of the most populous groups of indigenous peoples in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. A few thousand are also found in the Tibet Autonomous Region, where they are called the Lhoba together with some of the Nyishi peopl ..., formerly called the Abors. It lay ...
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Abor People (other)
Abor people may refer to: * The Adi people The Adi people are one of the most populous groups of indigenous peoples in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. A few thousand are also found in the Tibet Autonomous Region, where they are called the Lhoba together with some of the Nyishi peopl ... of the hills of Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet * The Anlo Ewe of southeastern Ghana and southwestern Togo * The Galo tribe of Arunāchal Pradesh, India See also * Abor (other) {{disambig ...
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Abor Formation
The Abor Formation is located in the Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is dated to the Permian. This formation consists of basalt Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ..., volcaniclastic breccia and rhyotaxitic dacite. This formation was named by the Abor Expedition of 1911-1912. References Geologic formations of India Basalt formations Permian India Dacite formations {{Asia-geologic-formation-stub ...
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Academic Bill Of Rights
The Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) is a document created and distributed by a branch of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a think tank founded by the conservative writer David Horowitz. A wide range of critics, representing a diverse range of academic viewpoints, have criticized it for infringing on academic freedom and described it as promoting an ideological agenda. Criticism A number of organizations representing a variety of political viewpoints have criticized the ABOR's aims and content. One of the first organizations to come out in opposition to the bill was the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). While agreeing with the underlying principles of freedom, equality, and pluralism in the university community, the association said that the bill "infringes academic freedom in the very act of purporting to protect it." Some individual academics regard the ABOR, along with the Santorum Amendment, as a threat to academic freedom. Others have suggested that th ...
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Abora
Abora is the name of an ancestral solar deity of La Palma (Canary Islands) and a traditional god of the Guanches. Supreme being Abora (Ibru) is the name of the supreme being of the religion of the Guanches on the island of La Palma. In Guanche mythology of the island of Tenerife Tenerife ( ; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of and a population of 965,575 inhabitants as of A ..., the supreme god was called Achamán. Uses of the name *Reed boats ''Abora'' of the German explorer Dominique Görlitz References Guanche deities Solar gods {{africa-myth-stub ...
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