Ifẹ̀ (Yoruba: Ifẹ̀, Ilé-Ifẹ̀) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria founded sometime between the years 1000 BC and 500 BC. [2][3][4] By 900 AD, the city had become an important West African emporium producing sophisticated art forms. [5] . …

Ile-Ife, town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. The town lies at the intersection of roads from Ibadan (40 miles [64 km] west), Ilesha, and Ondo. It is one of the larger centres and probably the oldest town of the Yoruba people.

2018年6月27日 · Ile-Ife, also known as Ife, Ife-Lodun, or the Kingdom of Ife, is world famous for its clay ceramic, or terracotta heads, and copper-alloy and bronze ornaments. But few people know of the...

2019年5月17日 · Ile-Ife is a Medieval period site in Nigeria, occupied between the 11th and 15th centuries CE. It is considered the ancestral home of the Yoruba people. Residents made naturalistic Benin bronzes, terracotta and copper allow sculptures.

2011年3月16日 · Ile Ife, or Ife, is an ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria famous for its art. Between 700 and 900 A.D., the Ife began to develop as an important artistic center. By the 12th Century, its artists were creating bronze, stone, and terracotta sculptures, some of which are found today in museums in Nigeria, Europe, and North America.

2025年3月25日 · Some historians opine that the Igbo ethnic group is thought to have originally occupied the area now known as Ile-Ife, but Oduduwa and his people invaded, fought them, and forced them to flee to the east. Some also believe that Oduduwa came from Egypt or Mecca and did not descend from heaven.

Ile-Ife, also known as Ife or Ife-Lodun, is the holy city of the Yoruba people who live in Nigeria in West Africa. Ile-Ife appears in myths as the birthplace of creation and the location where the first humans took form.

Ile-Ife is located in the South Western part of Nigeria, West Africa. The history of Ife can also be chronologically divided into three periods: The first Ife was known as Ife Oodaye, Ile owuro, ibiti oju ti mo, that is, the land of most ancient days where the dawn of the day was first experienced.

Ile Ife is an ancient Yoruba city with a population of about 510,000 (2006) in Osun State in South West Nigeria. It's about 218 km northeast of Lagos. Ife Ife is the cradle of the Yoruba civilisation, the ancestral home of the race and therefore called "Land of the Source". The progenitor of the Yoruba race is Oduduwa.

Ilé-Ifẹ̀ is famous worldwide for its ancient and naturalistic bronze, stone and terracotta sculptures, dating back to between 1200 and 1400 CE. According to Yoruba religion, Olodumare, the Supreme God, ordered Obatala to create the earth, but on his way he found palm wine which he drank and became intoxicated.