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Urhobo people
Summary
Infobox ethnic group
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| pop = 1.2 million
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The Urhobos are people located in southern Nigeria, near the northwestern Niger Delta.
The Urhobos are the major ethnic group in Delta State and the people speak the Urhobo language.
The word Urhobo refers to a group of people rather than a territory. The ethnic population is approximately 1.2 million.
The Urhobo people live in a territory bounded by latitudes 6° and 5°, 15° North and Longitudes 5°, 40° and 6°, 25° East in the Delta and Bayelsa States of Nigeria. Their neighbors are the Isoko to the southeast, the Itsekiri and Ijaw to the west, the Bini and Bini to the north, the Ijaw to the south and the Ukwuani people to the northeast.
The Ughelli and Agbon Kingdoms are the oldest kingdoms in Urhoboland. The Ughelli and Agbon Kingdoms can be traced to about the 14th century. Ughelli oral tradition has it that the great ancestor and founding father of Ughelli (Ughene) is the second son of Oghwoghwa, a prince from Benin Kingdom. The Okpe Kingdom is also one of the twenty four kingdoms in Urhobo land. The Kingdom has been in existence since before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century. The Okpe Kingdom was established formally in the 17th century. The Okpe people are known to have migrated to found the present day Sapele and the Orodje of Okpe still exercises authority over the land of Sapele.
Urhobo territory consists of evergreen forests with many oil palm trees. The territory is covered by a network of streams, whose volume and flow are directly affected by the seasons. The wet season is traditionally from April to October, while the dry season ranges from November to March.
The Urhobos are organized into two different political kingdoms, gerontocracies and plutocracies.
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