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Twon-Brass, previously known simply as Brass or Brasstown, is a community on Brass Island in the Nun River estuary of Southern Bayelsa State, Nigeria, in the Brass Local Government Area. The royal Chief is Alfred Diete-Spiff. The town is on the east shore of the Brass River, one of the branches of the Nun River, which in turn is a branch of the Niger River. Brass began as a mining village of the Nembe people. In the early 19th-century it was an important location in the slave trade.

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  • Brass (Nigeria) (de)
  • Brass (fr)
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  • Twon-Brass (o Brass) és una població i un estat tradicional de la LGA de Brass, localitzada al sud de l'estat de Bayelsa, a Nigèria. Brass està localitzat a l'illa Brass de l'estuari del riu Nun. L'actual rei de Bras és . (ca)
  • Brass est une ville de l'État de Bayelsa, au Nigeria comptant 185 089 habitants lors du dernier recensement en 2006. Son code postal est le 562. C'est un royaume traditionnel. Son souverain porte le titre d'Amayanabo. Le titulaire actuel est (en). * Portail du Nigeria (fr)
  • Brass (Nigeria)​ Brass ist eine Stadt im nigerianischen Bundesstaat Bayelsa und liegt im Süden Nigerias am Atlantik. Einer Berechnung von 2012 zufolge hat sie 6462 Einwohner. Die Kleinstadt liegt an der westlichen Spitze von , einer Insel an der nigerianischen Atlantikküste des Nigerdeltas. Unweit von Brass, im Westen, befindet sich das Cape Formoso, das den südlichsten Punkt Nigerias markiert. Fähren verbinden die Stadt mit der lokalen Hauptstadt Yenagoa und dem Wirtschaftszentrum Port Harcourt. (de)
  • Twon-Brass, previously known simply as Brass or Brasstown, is a community on Brass Island in the Nun River estuary of Southern Bayelsa State, Nigeria, in the Brass Local Government Area. The royal Chief is Alfred Diete-Spiff. The town is on the east shore of the Brass River, one of the branches of the Nun River, which in turn is a branch of the Niger River. Brass began as a mining village of the Nembe people. In the early 19th-century it was an important location in the slave trade. (en)
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  • Twon-Brass (o Brass) és una població i un estat tradicional de la LGA de Brass, localitzada al sud de l'estat de Bayelsa, a Nigèria. Brass està localitzat a l'illa Brass de l'estuari del riu Nun. L'actual rei de Bras és . (ca)
  • Brass (Nigeria)​ Brass ist eine Stadt im nigerianischen Bundesstaat Bayelsa und liegt im Süden Nigerias am Atlantik. Einer Berechnung von 2012 zufolge hat sie 6462 Einwohner. Die Kleinstadt liegt an der westlichen Spitze von , einer Insel an der nigerianischen Atlantikküste des Nigerdeltas. Unweit von Brass, im Westen, befindet sich das Cape Formoso, das den südlichsten Punkt Nigerias markiert. Fähren verbinden die Stadt mit der lokalen Hauptstadt Yenagoa und dem Wirtschaftszentrum Port Harcourt. Die Stadt Brass (englisch für „Messing“) erhielt ihren Namen von einem nahe gelegenen Fluss. Er wurde von den Briten wahrscheinlich deshalb Brass River genannt, weil die ersten britischen Händler Messinggegenstände im Austausch gegen Palmöl und Sklaven einführten. Heute ist vor allem die Förderung der leichten, Brass River crude oil genannten regionalen Rohölsorte von Bedeutung. Brass und seine Umgebung bilden das südlichste der acht Local Government Areas (LGA) des Bundesstaates Bayelsa mit einer Fläche von 1403,63 km². Bei der vorletzten Volkszählung 1991 hatte die LGA 166.230 Einwohner und damit eine Bevölkerungsdichte von 118 Einwohnern je km². (de)
  • Brass est une ville de l'État de Bayelsa, au Nigeria comptant 185 089 habitants lors du dernier recensement en 2006. Son code postal est le 562. C'est un royaume traditionnel. Son souverain porte le titre d'Amayanabo. Le titulaire actuel est (en). * Portail du Nigeria (fr)
  • Twon-Brass, previously known simply as Brass or Brasstown, is a community on Brass Island in the Nun River estuary of Southern Bayelsa State, Nigeria, in the Brass Local Government Area. The royal Chief is Alfred Diete-Spiff. The town is on the east shore of the Brass River, one of the branches of the Nun River, which in turn is a branch of the Niger River. Brass began as a mining village of the Nembe people. In the early 19th-century it was an important location in the slave trade. At one time the town was the main port of the Nembe Kingdom, called by one historian "the Venice of the Niger Delta", and was dominant in the palm oil trade of the region. When the Royal Niger Company became an increasingly strong rival in the trade, the town's economy was severely damaged.In January 1895 the Nembe king William Koko led a dawn attack of more than a thousand warriors on the company's headquarters at Akassa, which triggered a retaliatory raid that destroyed the kingdom's inland capital of Nembe.The British already had a consulate in Twon-Brass, from which after the fall of Koko they administered the area. In the mid-20th century it was the base of several fisheries and a center for the shipping of palm products. It was also a location for the shipment of rubber. There are plans for a multibillion-dollar gas facility on Brass Island.Agip Oil Company and Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas operate terminals in the town.In February 2009 gunmen in two speedboats attacked troops guarding the Agip oil terminal, but were repelled.The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) had threatened to target Italian companies since Italy had apparently offered to supply two attack boats to the Nigerian military. Tourist attractions include beautiful Atlantic Ocean beaches, the graves of British soldiers who died in the Nembe-British fighting of 1895 and the old consulate buildings, which were in use till the end of the colonial period in 1960. (en)
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