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Makari Chiefdom
Makari may refer to: Places * Makari, Cameroon, a town on Lake Chad * Makari, Guyana, a community in Potaro-Siparuni, Guyana * Makari Gbanti, a chiefdom of Bombali District in Sierra Leone * Makari, Bombali, a village in Bombali District, northern Sierra Leone * Makari, Tonkolili, a village in Tonkolili District, northern Sierra Leone People * Abdel Messih El-Makari (1892-1963), Coptic Orthodox monk and priest, and a Coptic saint * Farid Makari (1947–2022), Lebanese politician, former Vice-President of Parliament * George Makari (born 1960), historian, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Music * Makari (band), Makari is an American rock band from Orlando, Florida. See also * Makary (other) * Makkari (other) * Makar (other) * Makati, a town in the Philippines * Makira, an island in the Solomon Islands {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makari, Cameroon
Makary is a town in Logone-et-Chari, Far North Region (Cameroon), Far North Region, Cameroon, West Africa. The town is located on the right (east) bank of a distributary of the Chari River in the delta just before it enters Lake Chad. The people are known as Kotoko, and the local language is Mpade language, Mpade, Fula language, Fulani (Fulfulde) is the trade language. The primary economic activity was and is fishing. History Makary was part of the indigenous Sao civilisation that occupied the land south of Lake Chad from about the Sixth Century A.D. going into decline by at least the Fourteenth Century. With the decline of the Sao confederation, Makary was an independent kingdom, one of the Kotoko kingdom city-states. In the early Fifteenth Century, Makary went from being an ally of King Idris Alooma to being a part of the Bornu Empire, and soon converted to Islam. However, by the late Eighteenth Century, although nominally still part of Bornu, the city states had reasserted thems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |