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	Dahomey - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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, the ancient capital, Allada, Kana (formerly the country residence and burial-place of the kings of Dahomey) and Dogba.
		The Dahomey railway from Kotonu to the Niger is of metre gauge (3.28 ft.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dahomey (4884 words)

	Untitled Document
		The king of Dahomey at this time, Houegbadja, declared that the kingdom would continue to grow larger with each successive generation, for each king would leave his successor more land than he inherited.
		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.
	www.benintourisme.com /ang/country_info/dth.history.htm (1259 words)

	Adandozan
		Adandozan was a King of Dahomey (now Benin), technically the ninth, though he is not counted as one of the twelve kings.
		He became king when, in 1797, the previous King of Dahomey, Agonglo, died, leaving the throne to his eldest son.
		Adandozan's symbols were a baboon with a swollen stomach, full mouth, and ear of corn in hand (an unflattering reference to his enemy, the King of Oyo[?]), and a large parasol ('the king overshadows his enemies').
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ad/Adandozan.html (425 words)

	Dahomey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The kings of Dahomey sold their war captives into transatlantic slavery, who otherwise would have been killed in a ceremony known as the Annual Customs.
		Dahomey was finally conquered by France in 1892-1894.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahomey (768 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)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thus the name of the king of Dahomey is always kept secret, lest the knowledge of it should enable some evil-minded person to do him a mischief.
		The appellations by which the different kings of Dahomey have been known to Europeans are not their true names, but mere titles, or what the natives call “strong names.” The natives seem to think that no harm comes of such titles being known, since they are not, like the birth-names, vitally connected with their owners.
		For example, the king is often called a lion; hence at the death of a king named Lion a new name for lions in general has to be coined.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page257.html (623 words)

	Benin - MSN Encarta
		The abolition of the slave trade in the 1830s and after dealt a blow to Dahomey’s prosperity, but King Glélé, with the aid of European traders, found a remunerative substitute in the oil palm.
		In 1899 Dahomey was incorporated into French West Africa, with its exact boundaries defined through accords with Britain and Germany, colonizers of the neighboring areas to the east and west, respectively.
		Dahomey, as part of French West Africa, adhered to the cause of the Free French during World War II (1939-1945), and in 1946 it became one of the French overseas territories; from 1958 to 1960 it was an autonomous republic of the French Community.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577443_5/Benin.html (1002 words)

	Kings of Abomey
		The king of Abomey is a sacred being.
		The king has mystic, religious and temporal power and enjoys a number of privileges such as wearing sandals and being carried in a hammock.
		This is a direct allusion to the king's ability to dodge traps and overcome difficulties whilst reigning.
	www.epa-prema.net /abomeyGB/kings2.htm (1060 words)

	7 Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		on the death of a family head, the heir had to go to king’s court to be confirmed as heir; this heir received only a portion of the estate; the rest was kept by the king as a kind of inheritance tax.
		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)

	History of THE REPUBLIC OF BENIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The only occasion on which Dahomey is profligate with life, again mesmerizing European observers, is on the death of the king.
		In 1899 Dahomey is included in the newly established French West Africa, to begin sixty years under French colonial rule - until achieving independence in 1960.
		Dahomey has a turbulent existence in its first decades of independence, from 1960, after the dissolution of French West Africa.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad17 (710 words)

	Newsletter 11.1 Spring 1996 (Conservation at the Getty
		Given Dahomey's history, the king's refusal to be submissive in the face of another nation's dictates should not have been surprising.
		King Glélé's response to Burton was that the slave trade was an ancestral custom that had been established by the Europeans themselves, and he would continue to sell what the Europeans wanted.
		The king and his ministers have met several times with the team conserving the bas-reliefs, and the king himself has shown his interest in the project by making an official visit to the conservation atelier and the residence of the GCI team in Abomey.
	www.getty.edu /conservation/publications/newsletters/11_1/feature1.html (2787 words)

	Dahomey Amazons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) which lasted until end of the 19th century.
		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.
		Dahomey Amazons were represented in the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahomey_Amazons (581 words)

	African Forms in the Furniture of Pierre Legrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The king's stool is especially revered because the king represents the nation's soul.
		The stools of all subsequent kings are, upon their deaths, preserved in commemoration and as a resting place for their souls.
		King Glele's royal throne, seized by the French after the defeat of King Behanzin in 1894, contained carvings that combined local and European motifs--palmettes, shells and scrolls.
	www.nmafa.si.edu /exhibits/legrain/Afstools.htm (341 words)

	Roger Sandall
		-century Dahomey economic activity only takes place because it is "implemented by state officials", all the way from the king at the top down to the subsistence farmers planting their crops.
		“The King of Dahomey enforces cultivation over all his dominions”, he quotes approvingly from a 19th-century source, while “the permanent administration of agricultural affairs was in the hands of the ‘Minister of Agriculture’, the Tokpo”.
		Polanyi sees nothing wrong in the king having some 4,000 women attached to the court, 2,000 of them wives and the rest a regiment of female soldiers known in the literature as the “Amazons”.
	www.culturecult.com /farce/dahomy.htm (1254 words)

	Treaty with King Guézo
		"His Majesty, the King of Dahomey, wishing to strengthen the ties of friendship which have united his nation to the French nation for several centuries, has concluded the following treaty with the officer having the full powers of the President of the French Republic.
		The King alone will be judge of this, or at least the Governor or Yovogan of Whydah, and, in accordance with established custom, the traders will be informed of the reasons for this prohibition.
		- The King undertakes to give full protection to French missionaries who come to settle in his states, to give them full liberty of their cult and to encourage their efforts to educate his subjects.
	www.epa-prema.net /abomeyGB/resources/treaty_guezo.htm (463 words)

	Bénin
		In the precolonial era, Bénin was a collection of small, often warring principalities, the most powerful of which was the Fon Kingdom of Dahomey (with its capital at Abomey), founded in the 17th century.
		They traded firearms and luxury items to the Kings of Dahomey and other states for slaves, who were shipped to the New World, primarily to Brazil and the Caribbean.
		In 1892, the King of Dahomey was defeated and the country organized as the French protectorate of Dahomey.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Benin.html (415 words)

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		The Dahoman, like almost all semi-barbarians, considers a numerous family the highest blessing.” The peculiar worship of Legba consisted of propitiating his or her characteristics by unctions of palm oil, and near every native door stood a clay Legba-pot of cooked maize and palm oil, which got eaten by the turkey-buzzard or vulture.
		He tells us, however, that in the case of the King of Dahomey, human sacrifice is not attributable to cruelty.
		Kings here are kings there, the slave is a slave for ever and ever; and people occupy themselves just the same as on earth.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Biography/losrb12.htm (2028 words)

	Africa - The Last Slave Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Kingdom of Dahomey was ruled by an absolute monarchy, without interruption, for nearly three centuries.
		Dahomey was chronically at war, and much of its income derived from the sale of enemies captured in battle.
		Incursions by Dahomey against the Yoruba at Ishagga and Abeokutan are recorded in 1859-60, as well as against the Makhi to the north.
	www.melfisher.org /lastslaveships/africa.htm (1224 words)

	1884-85. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		France made war with the king of Dahomey, who was defeated and forced to recognize a French protectorate.
		King Béhanzin was captured, but the French faced continuing resistance.
		The Royal Niger Company proclaimed a protectorate over Busa and Nikki, effectively blocking a French advance eastward from Dahomey.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1517.html (373 words)

	Golden Bough Chapter 22. Tabooed Words. Section 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed.
		At the king’s kraal, indeed, it is sometimes difficult to understand the speech of the royal wives, as they treat in this fashion the names not only of the king and his forefathers, but even of his and their brothers back for generations.
		But it is not merely the names of living kings and chiefs which are tabooed in Madagascar; the names of dead sovereigns are equally under a ban, at least in some parts of the island.
		Thus among the Sakalavas, when a king has died, the nobles and people meet in council round the dead body and solemnly choose a new name by which the deceased monarch shall be henceforth known.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pag/frazer/gb02204.htm (1585 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: 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.newadvent.org /cathen/04603b.htm (390 words)

	Dahomey - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Dahomey was an African kingdom situated in what is now Benin.
		Based in his capital of Agbome, Wegbaja and his successors succeeded in establishing a highly centralized state with a deep-rooted kingship cult of sacrificial offerings, including human sacrifices, to the ancestors of the monarch.
		In 1960 the area gained independence as the Republic of Dahomey, which changed its name to Benin in 1975.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=8765 (498 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		How Azowano became king of the Araras is an interesting story and also emphasizes the need for proper divination in the religious practices of the Yoruba and other tribes of Africa.
		Meanwhile in the kingdom of Dahomey, the king had died, and there was no sucessor to the throne.
		The priests had a dream that the new king would appear and say certain words that would identify him as the true sucessor to the throne.
	www.angelfire.com /fl3/AZOWANO/page4.html (509 words)

	DAHOMEY / BENIN - Vintage Old Antique Postcard Postcards
		The Dahomey Campaign (1893) - Attack of the Camp of Dogba by the Dahomeans.
		The submission of King Behanzin to General Dodds (from a apinting by J. Delahaye).
		Behanzin, former king of Dahomey and his wives exiled in Algeria.
	www.postcardman.net /benin_ethnic.html (250 words)

	Behanzin
		Behanzin, the King of Dahomey, chose the strategy of confrontation to resist French occupation of his kingdom.
		Dahomey was one of the most powerful kingdoms in West Africa, deriving its power from trade and its superior army.
		In 1889, King Glele and his son Behanzin, who considered these coastal areas to be part of the kingdom of Dahomey, declared that the Fon people could no longer tolerate France's actions.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/behanzin.php (522 words)

	DVD Review - Cobra Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But the Cobra is not one to be controlled and, after impregnating the man’s daughters, the Don is soon hatching a plan that will ensure Cobra Verde’s death.
		He sends him to Africa to buy slaves from the vicious King of Dahomey, knowing full well that the king will likely kill this white man on sight.
		After aiding in a coup against the king, da Silva is named Viceroy and given full control of the slave trade.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/cobra_verde.shtml (1129 words)

	P.K. Sato: Review of Condé, The Last of the African Kings
		Spero is the fictional great grandson of the king of Dahomey deposed of his throne by the French and deported to Martinique in 1894.
		However, Spero's grandfather, the illegitimate son of the exiled king, is left behind when the king returns to Africa.
		Failing to come to terms with their condition of exile from the royal family, both the abandoned son and his son after him drown themselves in rum as they wait for the world to recognize them as members of an African dynasty.
	rmmla.wsu.edu /old/53.2/reviews/sato.html (1114 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.
		The French, armed with the most modern weapons -- machine guns and artillery -- met the Dahomey army at Zogbo in 1890 and for the next two years, reinforced by the French Foreign Legion, campaigned against the Dahomey king and his army.
		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)

	Map of Dahomey (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The circle with the small dots indicates the approximate boundaries of the Kingdom at its maximum.
		With French assistance, the small kingdom of Porto Novo in the south east was able to resist conquest and incorporation into the Kingdom of Dahomey.
		However, as a client state of the French, Porto Novo provided the base for the French conquest of the Kingdom of Dahomey and the rest of what became the French colony of Dahomey in the 1890s.
	husky1.smu.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /~wmills/course316/Dahomey_map.html (100 words)

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