Zuba

Zuba lies in the country around Zuma Rock, where Gbagyi communities established settlements and chiefdoms south of Zazzau. Local traditions recall early settlements near the great rock, including Zuba and neighbouring Zuma. In the early nineteenth century, a faction of the ruling house of Zaria fled south during the upheavals of the Sokoto jihad and settled at Zuba. Its arrival preceded the establishment of the Hausa state of Abuja, an offshoot of Zazzau among the peoples of the southern hills.

The later city of Abuja lies here.