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	Amazons Encyclopedia Article @ Gaily.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern day Turkey near the shore of the Euxine Sea, where they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen, often named Hippolyta ("she lets her horses loose").
		It is conjectured that the Amazons were originally the temple-servants and priestesses (hierodulae) of this goddess; and that the removal of the breast corresponded with the self-mutilation of the god Attis and the galli, Roman priests of Cybele.
		Amazon Nation Website that claims that the Amazons existed, but that their history has been long lost, or else so corrupted by later peoples that they are barely recognizable.
	www.gaily.org /encyclopedia/Amazons (6789 words)

	The Dahomey Amazons
		The folktales of the Dahomey are intimately related to the twin theory.
		Her reign was unusual because Dahomey had specified gender roles for males and females, with males controlling the power structure.
		Lived in a palace with a king – the Dahomey amazons were married to the king and had to live in his palace with everything given to them by the king.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/amazons/dahomey2.htm (1673 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		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.
		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.
		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 French rule.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Dahomey (706 words)

	Amazon.de: Amazons of Black Sparta: Women Warriors of Dahomey: English Books: Stanley B. Alpern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Amazons of Black Sparta is the first book ever published inEnglish on the only thoroughly documented amazons in world history.They were the elite troops of the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		His glimpses into the history of the Dahomean Amazons had to be painstakingly extracted from records in several languages of various European visitors to that area of West Africa from the 17th to the early part of this century.
		Not only were the Amazons of Dahomey fiercely independent and strong but much of the warfare conducted by the Fon (the people of Dahomey) was for the purpose of obtaining slaves for their own use and later to sell to European buyers for transport to the Americas.
	www.amazon.de /Amazons-Black-Sparta-Warriors-Dahomey/dp/1850653615 (1199 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		All uses derive ultimately from the Amazons, the legendary warrior women renowned for their prowess in battle.
		Amazon or Amazonia, the nom de guerre of a female gladiator
		Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Amazon (238 words)

	Amazons
		In Greek mythology, the Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of women at the outer edges of the world.
		Amazons were said to have lived in Pontus near the shore of the Euxine Sea, where they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen, often named Hippolyta ("she lets her horses loose").
		Amazons International (http://folk.uio.no/thomas/lists/amazons.html) - A newsletter dedicated to the image of the Amazon or female hero in fiction and in fact, in art and literature, in the physiques and feats of female athletes, and in gender-related and sexual orientations.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Amazons.html (2212 words)

	The Amazons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Amazon army corps, made up of female warriors, is said to have been established by King Agadja (1708-1740).
		According to A. Djivo, in "Guézo, the renovation of Dahomey", some of the women enrolled voluntarily whilst others who had difficult marriages and whose husbands had complained to the king were enrolled forcibly.
		The amazon corps was disbanded by Agoli Agbo, Gbêhanzin's successor, after the defeat of the Abomey kingdom.
	www.epa-prema.net /abomeyGB/pedago/amazons.htm (424 words)

	Women Warriors (Female Single Combat Club)
		Thermodontine Amazon government was decentralized with numerous Queens serving as tribal leaders, but by law throughout the empire only women could govern, or engage in warfare and agriculture.
		Hippocrates wrote of the Scythian Amazons fighting battles in the fifth century BC, Soviet archaeologists date the earliest graves of women warriors discovered near the Sea of Azov to the third century BC which indicates that the matrilineal dynasty founded by Lysippe lasted longer than the combined empires of Cyrus, Charlemagne, Alexander and Napoleon.
		Despite the fact that the Dahomey army was armed only with rifles while the French had machine guns and cannons, the Amazons attacked when the French troops attempted a river crossing, inflicting heavy casualties.
	www.fscclub.com /gender/warrior-hist.shtml (7234 words)

	Muscles At Work - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Amazons of Black Sparta is the first book ever published in English on the only thoroughly documented amazons in world history.
		They were the elite troops of the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		Edgerton: Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War.
	home.pages.at /muscles_at_work/html/books03.html (488 words)

	Amazon.com: Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War: Books: Robert B. Edgerton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		When France invaded Dahomey in the early 1890s, their superior weapons won the war, but all those French officers and men who wrote about their bloody battles against Dahomey declared not only that these women warriors were superior to male Dahomean soldiers, but also that they were the equals of the French.
		How this was done, how the Amazons lived and fought, and what their experiences might mean for the understanding of women and warfare both in the past and the present are the subjects of Warrior Women.
		Amazon has magazine subscriptions for $10 or less and subscriptions with savings of at least 70% off the cover price.
	www.amazon.com /Warrior-Women-Amazons-Dahomey-Nature/dp/0813337119 (693 words)

	THE REIGN OF DAHOMEY
		The folktales of the Dahomey are originated from the twin theory.
		These guards were the women referred to as “amazons”.
		Celibacy – Dahomey amazons were unable to procreate.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/amaz/dahomey.htm (1505 words)

	Amazons of Black Sparta : The Women Warriors of Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The memory of the Amazons, however, is still very alive and elders still tell stories of the women who tore trees out of the ground to use as clubs.
		The mythical Amazons of Greek legend were probably inspired by eye-witness reports of female cavalry soldiers of the ancient Russian steppe.
		Originally retained as an elite royal guard, Dahomey amazons held semi-sacred status as celibate warrior "wives" of the King.
	www.credit-mortgage-news.com /credit-books/isbn0814706789.html (959 words)

	Black African Amazons were an all-female elite combat group.
		Cave paintings of Black African Amazons using bows and arrows in combat while displaying one of their breasts can be seen at Sefar Tassili.
		The descendants of these women were the Dahomey Amazons of Fon from the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin).
		The Dahomey Amazons were were trained physically and mentally for war.
	members.tripod.com /jrmoore1958/amazonqueens.html (689 words)

	Kpengla - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		He destroyed the villages of Ekpe and Badagry (in what is now Nigeria), which were interfering with Dahomey's regional monopoly on the slave trade.
		His main symbol is the akpan bird, a trade gun (flintlocks became the standard issue to the Dahomean army during his reign), and a Dahomey Amazon striking her head against a tree (a reference to a humorous war story stemming from one of his military campaigns).
		King Kpengla (right, under parasol and carrying sword), leads a troop of Dahomey Amazons.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kpengla (217 words)

	Dahomey Amazons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Houegbadja's son King Agadja (ruling from 1708 to 1732) developed these bodyguards into a militia and successfully used them in Dahomey's defeat of the neighbouring kingdom of Savi in 1727.
		European encroachment into west Africa gained pace during the latter half of the 19th century, and in 1890 the Dahomey King Behanzin started fighting French forces (mainly made up of Yoruba, who the Dahomeans had been fighting for centuries).
		Membership of the Amazons was supposed to hone any aggressive character traits for the purpose of war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahomey_Amazons (581 words)

	History of the Warrior Women : The Amazons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Myrene, the Gorgon Amazons greatest Queen, conquered parts of Syria, Egypt, Phygia and lands in the Mediterranean including the islands of Samos, Lesbos, Pathmos and Samothrace.
		The Thermodontine Amazon's primary divinities where the Thracian Artemis (Tauric Virgin) and the Artemis of Ephesus who derived from the Phygian and Cretan Great Mothers (Cybele and Rhea) of Scythian and Anatolian origin.
		Her temple at Ephesus, who's site was chosen by the Amazons, was regarded as one of the greatest temples of antiquity.
	celebrity.com.ne.kr /warrior/html/amazons.htm (794 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Kingdom of Dahomey
		Early in the 18th century it was subjugated by the Kingdom of Oyo; in 1818, Dahomey threw off the yoke of Oyo rule.
		In 1724 respectively 1727, Dahomey conquered the Portuguese and French coastal trading forts of Allada and Whydah.
		In 1863, the French declared a protectorate over Porto Novo, in 1889 they occupied Cotonou, The practice of slave trading/slave raiding and of human sacrifice in Dahomey was criticized by the French.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/dahomeykgd.html (448 words)

	The Amazons of Dahomey - Part Eight
		The Amazons of Dahomey and the kingdom of Har need to cement their ties, face to face." The tone from the young King was commanding, assured.
		The warriors of Dahomey were rejoicing to be in the company of their sisters and lovers and kin, the war with Egypt over, the battles with Har proceeding apace.
		We, all of Dahomey, the kingdom of Har, you and your Greek consort.
	www.azarnes.com /Dah8.html (7261 words)

	The Dahomey Amazons - OD Board
		They were so named due to their similarity to the semi-mythical Amazons of Ancient Greece.
		The Amazons were rigourously trained, given uniforms, and equipped with guns (obtained via the slave trade).
		The regiment had a semi-sacred status, which was intertwined with the Fon belief in animism.
	www.originaldissent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=20389 (542 words)

	Amazon.de: Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women's Regiment of Dahomey: English Books: Stanley B. Alpern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Based on extensive archival research, this is a detailed history of the 18th- and 19th-century women warriors of the West African kingdom of Dahomey (now the People's Republic of Benin).
		Once dubbed a "small fl Sparta", Dahomey shared with Sparta an intense militarism and sense of collectivism.
		Moreover the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise, but Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors, Dahomean amazons to kill them.
	www.amazon.de /Amazons-Black-Sparta-Regiment-Dahomey/dp/0814706789 (1208 words)

	Review of Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. Robert B. Edgerton.
		Chapter Two gives a short history of Dahomey society and a description of the structure of the society, particularly the traditional place of woman in that society.
		Chapter Five discusses women warriors in general and the wider implications of the "Amazons." The book is thin (155 pages of text) and the discussion of the Amazons themselves is confined to Chapters One and Four (of necessity, since good, primary evidence for the women warriors of Dahomey is scarce).
		Insofar as this book becomes a discussion of the future role of women in combat, particularly in the United States, the example of the Dahomey women at war is not particularly apt.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewsw81.htm (603 words)

	Amazons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		In Greek mythology, the ?Âµa???e?, Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation...
		Hence arose the belief in the Amazons as a nation of female warriors,...
		The two players are White and Black; each player has four amazons,...
	warriorwomen.qophwarrior.com /amazonsuqn (130 words)

	Dahomey - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Scotland's forgotten explorer: overshadowed by Livingstone, Burton and Stanley, the exploits of the hapless John Duncan have been all but forgotten.
		Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War.(Review)
		Amazonas de carne y hueso.(ejÃ©rcito de mujeres arqueras en el antiguo reino africano de Dahomey, Nigeria)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-d1ahomey.html (166 words)

	Girls With Guns: Warrior Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Back in the mid-19th century, the West African kingdom of Dahomey had a singular army, led not by men, but by women.
		Even now, the "Amazons" of Dahomey represent an almost unique fighting force, the only confirmed case in history where the best soldiers in a male-led society were female.
		Their origins date back to rules forbidding men from being in the royal palace after dusk, leaving women to act as palace guards.
	www.girlswithguns.org /short/short0077.htm (345 words)

	The Amazons of Dahomey - Part One
		Every girl, on her coming of age, is sent out into the grassland with only a small knife to survive on her wits and skills for two moons.
		The Amazons' frenzy will be visited upon Egypt, draining their resources and supplies.
		He couldn't stand the sight of her, her height, her carriage that said she was as good as any, and better than most.
	www.azarnes.com /Dah1.html (4800 words)

	Amazon.com: Amazons of Black Sparta : The Women Warriors of Dahomey: Books: Stanley B. Alpern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History by Lyn Webster Wilde
		Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey by Edna G. Bay
		Dating back to the amazons of ancient Asia Minor, myths of fierce, autonomous women of martial excellence abound.And yet, the only thoroughly documented amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomy, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom.
	www.amazon.com /Amazons-Black-Sparta-Warriors-Dahomey/dp/0814706789 (2044 words)

	Muscles At Work - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War - 216 pages, 2000; Westview Press; ISBN 0-8133-3711-9.
		Stanley B. Alpern: Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey is an earlier book about the Amazons of Dahomey.
		Noting the grim countenances and powerful muscles of these women - some of whom were six feet tall - Europeans soon came to call them "Amazons", after the women warriors who the ancient Greeks insisted had fought so savagely against them.
	home.pages.at /muscles_at_work/html/books08.html (229 words)

	Amazons Images And Resorces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Although Tanzanican Amazons never existed, except in the comics and dime novels, real Amazons did exist in Africa.
		The Fon people of Dahomey used Amazon regiments for almost two hundred years.
		I will be creating a power based off these actual Amazons of Dahomey for Tanzanica but these Amazons are the Adventure Movie staples.
	www.tanzanica.com /Powers/Amazons1.htm (54 words)

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