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The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari (New Shipping Port), was an independent trading state of the Kalabari people, an Ijaw ethnic group, in the Niger River Delta.

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Today it is recognized as a traditional state in what is now Rivers State, Nigeria.

The people occupied a series of islands among the mangrove swamps of the delta, where they engaged in fishing and trading.
They would take the produce of the delta region up the New Calabar and Imo rivers, and exchange them for food and goods of the hinterland. In the 15th century, the early European traders noted that they alone of the delta people refused to trade on credit.
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