Turunku

Turunku is an ancient walled site near Zaria in the southern Hausa country. Its remains include inner and outer walls, enclosures, mounds and pottery, traces of a settlement substantial enough to organise the labour needed for its defences. Oral traditions identify Turunku as an early capital of Zazzau, the Hausa kingdom whose later centre was Zaria. The relationship between this old settlement and the rise of the Zazzau dynasty remains a matter of interpretation, but the surviving earthworks bear witness to a long history of organised settlement in the region.

The later city of Kaduna lies here.