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Dahomey and Kingdom
The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state that was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until 1894.
In 1975, the country was renamed " The People's Republic of Benin " after the Bight of Benin ( not the unrelated historical Kingdom of Benin ) since " Benin ," unlike " Dahomey ," was deemed politically neutral for all ethnic groups in the state.
Four thousand Whydahs, for example, were sacrificed when Dahomey conquered the Kingdom of Whydah in 1727.
From Cotonou, the legionnaires marched to seize Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
In so doing they established the Kingdom of Dahomey, with its capital at Agbome.
Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom.
Though originally ruled by the Kingdom of Dahomey, in 1851 the French made a treaty with the Dahomean King Ghezo that allowed them to establish a trading post at Cotonou.
In the Asante Confederacy, state-owned slaves built large plantations of oil palm trees, while in the neighbouring Kingdom of Dahomey, King Ghezo passed a law in 1856 forbidding his subjects from cutting down oil palms.
The current president of Benin, Yayi BoniFrom the 17th century till the colonial period, the Kingdom of Dahomey ( whose borders encompassed more than present day Benin ) was ruled by an " Oba ".
Agaja then requested free movement for Dahomey traders from the coastal Kingdom of Whydah, ( modern day Ouidah ), a lucrative coastal kingdom active in the Atlantic slave trade.
Every year in the Kingdom of Dahomey, a huge festival in honor of the ancestors was organized called the annual " customs ".
Following this he attended the Open University in his mid-twenties to study a Foundation Course and then later attended the University of Stirling, gaining a BA in history and a Ph. D. in economic history, with a thesis on the slave trade written as a critique of the Marxist model of historical change, entitled Warrior Aristocrats In Crisis: the political effects of the transition from the slave trade to palm oil commerce in the nineteenth century Kingdom of Dahomey.
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Candomblé Jeje is the Candomblé cult that the Vodous of Kingdom of Dahomey brought to the Brazil by enslaved Africans in various regions of West Africa and Central Africa.
According to tradition, they were introduced into the Kingdom of Dahomey from nearby lands by its founder King Adja-Tado, on the advice of a bokono ( seer ).
The Dahomey Amazons or Mino were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which lasted until the end of the 19th century.
In February 1850, the Yorktown headed for Ouidah, which was then in the Kingdom of Dahomey.
In 1727 the Kingdom of Whydah was captured by the forces of King Agaja of Dahomey.
In the Asante Confederacy, state-owned slaves built large plantations of oil palm trees, while in the neighbouring Kingdom of Dahomey, King Ghezo passed a law in 1856 forbidding his subjects from cutting down oil palms.
The Oyo Empire was the most politically important state in the region from the mid-17th to the late 18th century, holding sway not only over most of the other kingdoms in Yorubaland, but also over nearby African states, notably the Fon Kingdom of Dahomey in the contemporary republic of Benin to the west.
In 1728, the Oyo Empire invaded the Kingdom of Dahomey in a major campaign of its cavalry.

Dahomey and was
Dahomey was a country in west Africa in what is now the Republic of Benin.
From 1894 until 1960 Dahomey was a part of French West Africa.
Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.
Dahomey resembled Haiti in many ways, both geographically and culturally, and it was safer to film there than in Haiti.
During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.
In 1730, under king Agaja, Dahomey was conquered by the Oyo Empire, and Dahomey had to pay tribute.
During World War I this German territory was invaded by British troops from the neighbouring Gold Coast colony and French troops coming from Dahomey.
The Republic of Benin was the seat of Dahomey, one of the great medieval African kingdoms, governed from the capital, Abomey, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another reason for surplus supply of enslaved people was major warfare conducted by expanding states such as the kingdom of Dahomey, the Oyo Empire and Asante Empire.
At one extreme, the kings of Dahomey routinely slaughtered slaves in hundreds or thousands in sacrificial rituals, and the use of slaves as human sacrifices was also known in Cameroon.
The cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotonou. The diocese was originally created on June 26, 1883, as the Apostolic Prefecture of Dahomey from the Apostolic Vicariate of Benin Coast, Nigeria.
After several names changes under Dahomey, on 14 September 1955 it was promoted as the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cotonou.
The university was founded in 1970 as the Université du Dahomey.
Porto-Novo ( also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé ) is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey.
In 1883, Porto-Novo was incorporated into the French " colony of Dahomey and its dependencies.
In Dahomey mythology of Benin in West Africa, the serpent that supports everything on its many coils was named Dan.
In Africa the chief centre of serpent worship was Dahomey, but the cult of the python seems to have been of exotic origin, dating back to the first quarter of the 17th century.
" Dahomey was an African kingdom situated in what is now Benin.

Dahomey and founded
He was elected to Dahomey's territorial assembly in 1947 and founded the Northern Ethnical Group, later renamed the Dahomey Democratic Rally ( Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé ).
Ilaro was founded in the 18th century by Aro who migrated from the Oyo town to settle down in Igbo Aje, a little hill situated at the centre of the town from where he and his warriors could sight enemies ( mostly slave traders from the neighbouring Benin republic known then as Dahomey ) on attack from a long distance.
PCB was founded in 1977 by the Union of Communists of Dahomey.
The movement was founded by Samuel Joseph Bilewu Oschoffa, a former carpenter born in Dahomey ( now Benin ) in 1909.

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