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	Benin city travel guide
		Benin City was one of the most important cities of West Africa until the British came along.
		The spectacular beauty about the city is that it is surrounded by moats which are as historical as the walls of china.
		It was used as a form of defence against enemies of the city.
	www.world66.com /africa/nigeria/benincity (235 words)

	Benin - LoveToKnow 1911
		BENIN, the name of a country, city and river of British West Africa, west of the main channel of the Niger, forming part of the protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
		Benin was discovered by the Portuguese about the year 1485, and they carried on a brisk trade in slaves, who were taken to Elmina and sold to the natives of the Gold Coast.
		Benin city was the seat of a theocracy of priests, in whose hands the oba or king, nominally supreme, appears to have often been a puppet.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Benin (1862 words)

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		For a long time the Benin bronze sculptures were the only historical evidence dating back several centuries into the West African past, and both the level of technical accomplishment attained in bronze casting, as well as the monumental vigor of the figures represented, were the object of great admiration.
		Benin bronzes are better known than the artworks from Ife or Owo due to their presence in Western museums since 1890s.
		In the thirteenth century, the city of Benin was an agglomeration of farms enclosed by walls and a ditch.
	www.zyama.com /benin/pics..htm (764 words)

	Benin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Benin, Bight of, bay in West Africa, forming the western part of the Gulf of Guinea.
		The Bight of Benin extends from the mouth of the Volta River to...
		Benin, Kingdom of, state of West Africa that flourished from the 15th to the 17th century.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Benin.html (106 words)

	Edofolks - BENIN According to Historian
		BENIN, the name of a country, city and river of British West Africa, west of the main channel of the Niger, forming part of the protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
		In its restricted sense Benin is the country formerly ruled by the king of Benin city.
		Benin city was the seat of a theocracy of priests, in whose hands the oba or king, nominally supreme, appears to have often been a puppet.
	www.edofolks.com /html/pub130.htm (1705 words)

	Benin Bronze and History @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
		For over six hundred years the city of Benin was the capital of a prosperous, well-organized empire of the same name.
		The palace in Benin was the height of a complex feudal society characterized by widespread competition for power, prestige and wealth.
		The divinity of the Benin monarchy is linked to Osanobua, the Creator God, and Olokun, his eldest son, who is associated intimately with the human world and with aspects of wealth, fertility and beauty.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/exhibits/galleries/benin.html (1005 words)

	Benin: Benin City
		Benin was an agglomeration of farms enclosed by walls and a ditch.
		The “Benin style” is a court art from the palace of the oba, and has nothing in common with tribal art.
		Nicephore Soglo's Renaisance du Benin (RB) party won the new vote, paving the way for the former president to be elected Mayor of Cotonou by the new city council in February 2002.
	www.lycos.com /info/benin--benin-city.html (606 words)

	Civilizations in Africa: The Forest Kingdoms
		Benin in southern Nigeria was an area occupied by a people speaking Edo, and in their account of history, the Edo say that they have occupied this area for several thousand years.
		In its early forms, Benin sculpture is primarily historical, recounting important events, such as the arrival of the Portugese, in magnificently detailed brass plaques and statuary.
		Benin art became one of the most influential art traditions in west Africa, spreading throughout the cultures west and north of the Niger River.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAFRCA/FOREST.HTM (1036 words)

	Africa, Nigeria, Edo, Benin City, 19th century / Carved Tusk / 1800s
		Context: The powerful Benin kingdom of southern Nigeria was noted for its ancient, refined artistic traditions.
		Benin witnessed a remarkable flowering of the arts from about 1400 to 1900 -- mainly sponsored by the king.
		One of the site that received much artistic attention was the altar for the king's ancestors containing bronze heads, bells, sculptures, wooden rattle staffs, carved ivory tusks, and other objects that commemorated the power and spiritual presence of past rulers.The altar's centerpiece was a bronze head representing a departed ruler.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico10214204-36199.html (435 words)

	Benin encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Benin politics and officials, Beninn History. Travel to Benin
		Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in Western Africa, formerly known as Dahomey or Dahomania.
		It has a small coast line with the Bight of Benin in the south, borders Togo in the west, Nigeria in the east, and Burkina Faso and Niger in the north.
		It has no particular connection to Benin City or the Kingdom of Benin, the source of the famous Benin Bronzes.
	www.beniniworld.com (257 words)

	Benin City magazine editor survives murder attempt : print
		Reporters Without Borders voiced impatience and anger today at the Nigerian authorities after a murder attempt last night in Benin City on Peter Iwelomen, the editor of the community magazine Esan, in what is the latest in a series of violent attacks on journalists in Nigeria.
		Iwelomen left his Benin City officer at around 8 p.m.
		The attempt on Iwelomen’s life comes less than a week after an armed attack on Simon Ebegbulem and Osaro Okhomina, who are both Benin City correspondents of one of the biggest Lagos dailies, The Vanguard.
	www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=14872 (327 words)

	Maps Of Benin
		Population - Africa - Population Density Map - UN adjusted data {Lambert Azimuthal Projection} - Columbia University in the City of New York.
		Free Blank Outline Map - Benin - A free blank outline map of the country of Benin to print out for educational, school or classroom use from Geography Guide Matt Rosenberg.
		The Map Machine - Map of Benin - From the National Geographic Society - The map features on this website are absolutely outstanding - These dynamic maps allow you to zoom in or zoom out, you can drag in the map to recenter, or to enlarge.
	www.embassyworld.com /maps/Maps_Of_Benin.html (650 words)

	ONONEME
		Benin City Art Exhibitions” (Inaugural) held at the Fine/Applied Arts Dept, Ekenwan Campus
		The Relationship between the Visual and Performing Arts - A case for Conscious Unity in the Arts in Benin Journal of Educational Studies, Benin City, University of Benin, Vols.
		(2000) Sculptors and Patrons: A study of the problems and prospects of sculpture and its patronage in Benin City.
	www.clarku.edu /~jborgatt/ononome.htm (726 words)

	Benin City Christian Dating, Benin City Christian Singles, Benin City Christian Personals at Date.com
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		Find dates at Date.com's personals for Benin City, Nigeria.
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	The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897
		Once a powerful city-state, Benin exists today as a modern African city in what is now south-central Nigeria.
		The present-day oba of Benin traces the founding of his dynasty to A.D. In the late 1400s, a flourishing and wealthy royal court was in place, with a palace harboring a vast compound where metalsmiths, carvers and others created objects for the king and his court.
		Cast commemorative heads of deceased kings were displayed on altars at numerous shrines in the royal palace.
	www.nmafa.si.edu /exhibits/benintwo.htm (156 words)

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		The spectacular beauty of the city is that it is surrounded by moats which are as historical as the Great Wall of China.
	www.dealchecker.co.uk /cheap-flights/benin-city.html (617 words)

	Benin City definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Benin City definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Be·nin Cit·y capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria.
		It was the capital of the Kingdom of Benin that flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries, producing magnificent brass, bronze, and ivory sculptures.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861727628/Benin_City.html (97 words)

	Edofolks - Within bloodstained Nigeria, a city of peace
		A century later, Benin City is still nicknamed "City of Blood," yet it is a remarkable haven of tranquility in a modern Nigeria exploding with tangled regional, ethnic and religious hostilities.
		Like the rest of Nigeria, most of the city's residents are miserably poor and petty crime is rife in the crowded ghettos of rusted aluminum and shapeless tone.
		He lives in a sprawling mud and log palace that is Benin City's biggest building and he is revered by followers as a demigod.
	www.edofolks.com /html/pub36.htm (786 words)

	Benin
		Benin is situated in West Africa and is bounded to the east by Nigeria, to the north by Niger and Burkina Faso, and to the west by Togo.
		Benin is once again making a name for itself as it embraces democracy with characteristic fervor and is catapulted onto the African stage as a model of reform.
		Benin is the birthplace of voodoo (voodoo museums of Ouidah).
	us-africa.tripod.com /benin.html (457 words)

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		Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in Western Africa, formerly known as Dahomey (until 1975) or Dahomania.
		Benin's politics takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Benin is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Benin is a cultural West African country with a population of over 7 million.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Benin (2863 words)

	AllRefer.com - Benin, city, Nigeria (Nigeria Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Benin served as the capital of a kingdom that was probably founded in the 13th cent.
		Britain conquered and burned the city in 1897, destroying much of the country's treasured art and dispersing nearly all that remained.
		The portrait figures, busts, and groups created in iron, carved ivory, and brass (long thought to be bronze) made in Benin beginning perhaps as early as the 13th cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BeninNig.html (292 words)

	The Sun News Online \| travels (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benin Kingdom is said to have reached its apogee between the 14th and 17th centuries, and that civilization had undergone a decline following the state’s involvement in the slave trade.
		To worsen matters, relics of ancient Benin at the peak of her cultural pomp would later be lost to British invasion of the ancient African city in 1897.
		Benin City is supposed to be one of Nigeria’s centres of bronze sculptures.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/travels/2006/june/22/travels-22-06-2006-001.htm (2428 words)

	The British and the Benin Bronzes
		It was hardly credible to the Benin warriors waiting in ambush along the forest path that the party, with its large boxes and over two hundred carriers and servants, was really unarmed.
		The Benin art treasures were treated as little more than curios when they were first brought to this country but as the wonderful quality of the ivory carving and bronze casting became appreciated it was reflected in ever increasing prices in the art auction rooms of the world.
		The Benin artworks belong to a living culture and have a deep historical and social value which goes far beyond the aesthetic and monetary value they hold in exile.
	www.arm.arc.co.uk /britishBenin.html (1768 words)

	Raceandhistory.com - Nigeria: The Edo of Benin
		Benin City is called Edo by its inhabitants and in certain contexts individuals from all parts of the kingdom will refer to themselves as ovbiedo (child of Edo).
		It seems that the first rulers of Benin, a trading settlement and afterwards a city of the Niger Delta, acquired their power soon after the forming of the first Yoruba states, or perhaps at about the same period.
		Bradbury argues that it is clear that sentimental attachment to Benin and recognition of the Oba's temporal and spiritual authority did not necessarily depend on his ability to subdue a vassal by force of arms.
	www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/edoofbenin.htm (3931 words)

	Benin City - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The city is connected by road to Lagos and Onitsha.
		Benin had a population of 7,862,944 (2006 estimate), growing at a rate of 2.7 per cent a year.
		Museums in Benin City, Ibadan, Ife, Ilorin, Jos, and Kaduna are also...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Benin_City.html (117 words)

	Benin City - AfricanCities.net
		Benin was the capital of the Kingdom of Benin, the empire of the Oba of Benin which was probably founded in the 13th cent.
		The Bight of Benin's shore was known as the "Slave Coast." In the early 16th century, the Oba sent an ambassador to Lisbon, and the king of Portugal sent missionaries to Benin.
		To preserve Benin's independence, the Oba gradually banned the export of goods from Benin, until the trade was exclusively in palm oil.
	www.africancities.net /BeninCity/php/history.php (256 words)

	Benin City travel guide - Wikitravel
		Benin City is one of the oldest cities in Nigeria, dating back to pre-colonial times.
		The city used to be the capital of the old Bendel state until this was divided into Edo and Delta.
		The city has an airport and there are regular flights from Lagos to Benin City, operated by Associated Aviation.
	wikitravel.org /en/Benin_City (207 words)

	Benin, Nigeria, Pictures
		In the city are the University of Benin (1970) and a museum of art produced by local artists.
		Benin artisans were noted for wood and ivory carving and bronze casting.
		The city was a center for trade in ivory and pepper.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Nigeria/Benin_City.html (181 words)

	MrDonn.org - Daily Life in the Forest Kingdom of Benin (Ancient Africa) - Plus Lesson Plans & Activities
		The Kingdom of Benin was one of the Forest Kingdoms of ancient and medieval Africa.
		Benin began in BCE times, and was not conquered until the late 1800's, so they enjoyed quite a run.
		Benin could go to war, and was forced to on occasion, but their warriors were fierce and capable; their leaders were wise; their people worked together as a team; and thus their normal state was a peaceful one.
	africa.mrdonn.org /benin.html (1448 words)

	Country Pages: Benin
		The Republic of Benin is a small, culturally rich nation in West Africa with an ethnically diverse population and a varied landscape stretching from the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in the south, to the Niger River in the north.
		Benin's tapestries, pottery, wooden masks, and bronze, brass, and ivory sculptures are world-renowned.
		Previous Fulbright Scholars to Benin have been involved in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, art history, agriculture, American literature, economics, education, English, French, linguistics, and mathematics.
	www.cies.org /country/benin.htm (726 words)

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