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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dahomey
		Dahomey was subject to three native dynasties, one of which at that
		Dahomey was said to be the last extant stronghold at the end of the nineteenth century, ended with the capture and exile of King Behanzim by a
		Dahomey was in 1860, when its jurisdiction was defined to include all the country between the Rivers Niger and Volta.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04603b.htm (454 words)

	DAHOMEY - LoveToKnow Article on DAHOMEY
		Dahomey is bounded S. by the Gulf of Guinea, E. by Nigeria (British), N. and N.W. by the French possessions on the middle Niger, and W. by the German colony of Togoland.
		Inland in Dahomey proper are Abomey (qv.), the ancient capital, Allada, Kana (formerly the country residence and burial-place of the kings of Dahomey) and Dogba.
		Comrnunications.The Dahomey railway from Kotonu to the Niger is of metre gauge (3.28 ft.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DAHOMEY.htm (3194 words)

	Dahomey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The origins of Dahomey can be traced back to a group of Aja from the coastal kingdom of Allada who moved northwards and settled among the Fon people of the interior.
		As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using rifles and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave-traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave-merchants.
		Nevertheless, Agadja was unable to defeat the neighbouring kingdom of Oyo, Dahomey's chief rival in the slave trade, and in 1730, he became a tributary of Oyo, though he still managed to maintain Dahomey's independence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahomey (581 words)

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		As a result, the people of Dahomey fought to expand their territory, and each king built a new palace near his predecessor's, producing a series of palaces in the city of Abomey.
		Europeans began arriving in the area in the 18th century, as the kingdom of Dahomey was expanding its territory.
		Dahomey became a large exporter of palm oil and tobacco among other crops, but without the slave trade they could no longer maintain the same level of military superiority over other kingdoms.
	www.benintourisme.com /ang/country_info/dth.history.htm (1259 words)

	Dahomey
		About the year 1728 the territory now known as Dahomey was subject to three native dynasties, one of which at that date conquered the other two and set up its own despotism under the present territorial designation.
		This despotism, tempered only by the fear inspired by Fetishism (q.v.), of which Dahomey was said to be the last extant stronghold at the end of the nineteenth century, ended with the capture and exile of King Behanzim by a French military expedition in 1892.
		The residence of the vicar Apostolic is at the coast town of Whydah, formerly the native capital and a notorious centre of Dahomeyan Fetishism.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/dahomey.html (394 words)

	Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The kingdom of Dahomey, with its capital at Abomey, was preeminent in the region now known as Benin from the 17th to the early 19th century and derived great wealth from trading slaves with Europeans along the coast, which was known as the Slave Coast.
		The French established a commercial agreement with the kingdom in 1851 and gradually consolidated their control of Dahomey until, in 1904, it was made a colony within French West Africa.
		Located on the Bight of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea, it is bordered on the east by Nigeria, on the north by Niger and Burkina, and on the west by Togo.
	www.geocities.com /tsuribaka/dahomey.htm (133 words)

	Dahomey mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dahomey (or Fon) are a nation located in Benin, Africa.
		The mythology of the Dahomey includes an entire pantheon of thunder gods; for example, Xevioso (also Xewioso) is the god of thunder in the So region.
		The head of the thunder pantheon is named Sogbo, which is also used to describe devotees of the thunder gods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahomey_mythology (389 words)

	The Dahomey Amazons
		The folktales of the Dahomey are intimately related to the twin theory.
		The tale of the origins of Dahomey’s political power is as follows: Two twins were born named Ahangbe, female, and Akaba, male, who reigned jointly in the area of current day Abomey.
		Her reign was unusual because Dahomey had specified gender roles for males and females, with males controlling the power structure.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/amazons/dahomey2.htm (1673 words)

	GHANA
		Dahomey was a rival to the Asante Empire.
		The Dahomey were the suppliers to the Portuguese of slaves destined for Asante.
		Dahomey kings annexed areas to the north, southeast and southwest of their empire.
	www.internetpuppets.org /afrghana.html (981 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Dahomey
		Dahomey, Kingdom of, West African state (17th-19th century) in what is now the southern part of Benin; its capital was Abomey.
		Both before and after the independence of Dahomey was proclaimed (Aug. 1, 1960), a certain ambivalence was noticeable in Dahomeyan affairs.
		This was due to the fact that, politically, Dahomey is a member of the pro-French Community "Conseil de l'Entente" grouping of four West African states, and...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Dahomey (132 words)

	7 Dahomey
		During the Yoruba wars (this is when Dahomey ended its subordination to Oyo), many slaves were acquired by trade with one or other of the sides in that essentially civil war.
		- Dahomey was very reluctant to give up the slave trade in the 19th C and continued to carry on a clandestine trade past the mid-19th C. - Dahomey was probably the most highly centralised state in Africa;it was an almost perfect example of absolute monarchy—beyond France under Louis XIV.
		Dahomey even had a system for taking annual census (in a non-literate society!), not only of people, but also of animals, crops, etc. (they used bags with coloured stones to represent numbers and quantities); this information was used to levy what amounted to an income tax!
	husky1.stmarys.ca /~wmills/course316/7Dahomey.html (1090 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		The kingdom was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until the late nineteenth century, when it was conquered by France French troops from Senegal and incorporated into France's West African colonialism colonies.
		The origins of Dahomey can be traced back to a group of Aja people Aja from the coastal kingdom of Allada who moved northwards and settled among the Fon people of the interior.
		Most of the troops that fought against Dahomey were native African, and it has been surmised by several historians that neighbouring tribes, particularly the Yoruba, were only too happy to bring about the Kingdom's collapse in favour of liberal France French rule.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Dahomey.html (577 words)

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