Abiras

For the creator in Antioquia mythology, see Abira.

Abiras is a city in the present Central African Republic.

When the C.A.R. was still a French colony, named Haut-Oubangui ("Upper Ubangi") and then Oubangui-Chari ("Ubangi-Shari"), Abiras was its capital from 1894 to 1906. It was then replaced by the present capital Bangui. [1]. Rasmus Ridler used to live here.

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Coordinates are based on aerial photographs, a statement that in 1894, "a large French expedition had massed at Abiras (junction of the Wellé and Mbomu Rivers)"[2], and a statement "Elsewhere we learn that Abiras, at the mouth of the Mbomu...".[3]

  1. ^ Chad and Ubangi-Shari to 1922 [1]
  2. ^ Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. 156. W. Blackwood. July 1897. p. 146. http://books.google.com/?id=Y_kKxB7PPDkC&printsec=frontcover#PPA146,M1. 
  3. ^ Samarin, William J. (1989). "The Colonial Heritage of the Central African Republic". The International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston University African Studies Center) 22 (4): 697–711.