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Monrovia city overview
Monrovia is a city in Liberia shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forMonrovia, Capital city in Liberia, Monrovia planning base 3, Monrovia planning base 4
RegionLiberiaLiberia
Time zoneAfrica/Monrovialocal time
Founded300historical origin
City history
The agreement, which covered a relatively small coastal area and was valued at approximately $300 in trade goods, has been the subject of historical debate, with modern scholarship revisiting earlier claims about the circumstances.
The French cartographer and slave trader Chevalier des Marchais visited Ducor and the Cape in 1723, conducted business there and later published a map of the area.
Before 1816, the area around Cape Mesurado and the mouth of the Mesurado River was called Ducor.
He likewise signed into law the Anti-Slave Trading Act of 1819, which funded the ACS's mission to create such a colony in West Africa.
Prior to the establishment of the settlement, representatives of the American Colonization Society negotiated the purchase of land at Cape Mesurado in December 1821 from local leaders.
On 7 January 1822, a ship took these settlers to Dazoe Island (now called Providence Island) at the mouth of the Mesurado River.
In 1824, the city was renamed Monrovia after James Monroe, president of the United States at the time.
President James Monroe, a prominent supporter of the colonization of Liberia and the American Colonization Society (ACS).
Along with Washington, D.C., it is one of two world capitals to be named after an American president.
It had long been established as a crossroads and a place of trade inhabited by fishing, trading and farming communities of various ethnicities, including the Dey, Kru, Bassa, Gola, and Vai.
They subsequently went ashore at Cape Mesurado, and established a settlement they called Christopolis.
Monroe was a prominent supporter of plans to create a colony of some sort as a place to relocate African Americans from the United States of America and combat the Atlantic Slave Trade.
During World War I the city was affected by the German bombing of Monrovia.
Krutown was inhabited mainly by ethnic Krus, but also by Bassas, Grebos and members of other ethnic groups.
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Monrovia
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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