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1824 - Settlement renamed "Monrovia" named after United States president James Monroe. [3] 1826 - Liberia Herald newspaper begins publication. [2] 1839 - Monrovia Seminary founded. 1847 June 25: Constitutional Convention held in Monrovia to discuss creation of the state of Liberia. [1] July 26: Monrovia becomes part of newly formed Republic of ...
Monrovia (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ v i ə / ⓘ) [4] [5] is the administrative capital and largest city of Liberia.Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2022 census had 1,761,032 residents, home to 33.5% of Liberia’s total population. [6]
Furthermore, Liberia allowed the U.S. to use its territory as a bridgehead for transports of soldiers and war supplies, in addition to the construction of military bases, airports, the Freeport of Monrovia, roads to the interior, etc. [45] Many of the American personnel who passed through Liberia were black soldiers (who, at the time, were in ...
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
The Center for National Documents and Records (est. 1977) serves as the national archives of Liberia. [1] It was headquartered on Tubman Boulevard in the Sinkor section of the city of Monrovia until 1992, when it moved to Ashmun Street. [2]
The First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997. President Samuel Doe's regime of totalitarianism and widespread corruption led to calls for withdrawal of the support of the United States, by the late 1980s. [2]
Roberts International Airport (IATA: ROB, ICAO: GLRB), informally also known as Robertsfield, is an international airport in the West African nation of Liberia.Located near the town of Harbel in Margibi County, the single runway airport is about 35 miles (56 km) outside of the nation's capital of Monrovia, and as an origin and destination point is referred to as "Monrovia".
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