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Salaga is a city in Ghana's Northern Region and the capital of its East Gonja District. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Salaga served as a key market town of the Ashanti kingdom, particularly for the busy regional slave trade and kola trade with the Mossi and  Gonja kingdoms. The city was sometimes referred to as "the Timbuktu of the south" for its cosmpolitan population and varied trade. Like many market towns of the time, Salaga's ethnic groups divided into separate wards. Estimates of its population in these years range from 20,000 to 50,000, with the Hausa language serving as a lingua franca. Muslims formed the most dominant religious group, though many residents retained animist beliefs as well. NORTHERN REGION Tamale Muncicipal District , ( TAMALE )
Central Gonja District , - BUIPE , West Gonja District , - DAMONGO , East Gonja District , - SALAGA , Tolon/Kumbungu District , - TOLON , Savelugu/Nanton District , - SAVELUGO , Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District , - SAWLA
Bole District , - BOLE , Karaga District , - KARGA , Yendi District , - YENDI , Nanumba North District , - BIMBILLA , Nanumba South District , - WULENSI , Zabzugu/Tatale District , - ZABZUGU
Saboba/Chereponi District , - SABOBA , Gushiegu District , - GUSHIEGU
East Mamprusi District , - GAMBAGA Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District ,- BUNKPURUGU Salaga in PICTURES ( SOON )
| With the 1874 British defeat of the Ashanti, the Gonja population of Salaga revolted, killing hundreds of the Ashanti. The violence resulted in an immediate decline in trade, which would be further devastated by a 1892 civil war. At this time, Britain and Germany had become the key European powers in the area, each supporting a rival candidate in the conflict; Britain seized the city directly in 1897. By 1900, the city served only as a zongo, a rest stop for caravans.
 Visitors to Salaga today can still see the pond known as Wonkan bawa (Hausa for "the bathing place of a slave") and a young baobab tree on the site of the old slave market.
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Salaga, Gha
Updated 11 March 2010 15:00
Mostly Cloudy | 35°C | High: 34°C
Low: 24°C
Wind: 2 kph
Humidity: 47%
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