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	Dahomey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dahomey was a kingdom in Africa, situated in what is now the nation of Benin.
		The kingdom was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until the late nineteenth century, when it was conquered by French troops from Senegal and incorporated into France's West African colonies.
		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 (768 words)

	Dahomey - LoveToKnow 1911
		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 (4894 words)

	Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The kingdom was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until the late nineteenth century, when it was conquered by French troops from Senegal and incorporated into France's West Africa n colonies.
		Most of the troops that fought against Dahomey were native African, and it has been surmised that their hostility to the kingdom, particularly among the Yoruba, led to its downfall.
		Dahomey The Vicariate Apostolic of Dahomey, in West Africa, is territorially identical with the French colony of the same name.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Dahomey.html (502 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Abomey is a town in Benin, formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey.
		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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dahomey (2741 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.
		King Houegbadja (who ruled from 1645 to 1685), the third King of Dahomey, is said to have originally started the group which would become the Amazons as a corps of royal bodyguards after building a new palace at Abomey.
		Dahomey Amazons were represented in the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dahomey_Amazons (506 words)

	Untitled Document
		Around 1645, the Abomey kingdom conquered the neighboring kingdom of Dan and thus became known as "Dahomey," which means "in the belly of Dan" in Fon.
		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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The kingdom was founded in the century and survived until the late nineteenth when it was conquered by French troops from Senegal and incorporated into France's West African colonies.
		The origins of Dahomey can be traced to a group of Aja from the coastal kingdom of Allada northward and settled among the Fon people of the interior.
		Most of the troops that fought Dahomey were native African and it has surmised that their hostility to the kingdom among the Yoruba led to its downfall.
	www.freeglossary.com /Dahomey (492 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 1892-1894 the kingdom was conquered; King Behanzin was deposed and exiled to Martinique, the French installed a puppet king, Goutchilli.
		In the 1880es, the size of the kingdom was estimated at 10,000 square km, the population estimates ranged between 15,000 and 90,000 (Meyers).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/dahomeykgd.html (434 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kingdom of Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using rifles and other firearms traded with Europeans for captives, who were sold into slavery in the Americas.
		Nevertheless, Agadja was unable to defeat the neighboring 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.
		In 1960 the area gained independence as the Republic of Dahomey, which later changed its name to Benin in 1975.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kingdom-of-Dahomey (450 words)

	GHANA
		Dahomey was a rival to the Asante Empire.
		King Trudo conquered Abomey and the kingdoms of Allada and Ouidah (1724-1727).
		Dahomey kings annexed areas to the north, southeast and southwest of their empire.
	www.internetpuppets.org /afrghana.html (981 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)

	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)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Slave Kingdoms - Wonders
		Dahomey, a precolonial West African kingdom, is located in what is now southern Benin.
		Abomey, Dahomey's capital, was founded around 1620 by Dogbari, who fled Allada after a power struggle amongst his brothers for the control of that kingdom.
		Dahomey leaders surrendered in 1894, and the kingdom became a French colony.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi3/3_wondr2.htm (212 words)

	THE REIGN OF DAHOMEY
		The folktales of the Dahomey are originated from the twin theory.
		Dahomey kings had a period of influence lasting about 300 years, from 1600 to about 1900.
		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/amaz/dahomey.htm (1505 words)

	History of THE REPUBLIC OF BENIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In a custom practised also in the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia and China, large numbers of people (said to be about 500 in a funeral ceremony in 1791) are sacrificed to provide the ruler with wives and attendants in the next world.
		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)

	Geographical Location of the Adja (Ewe)-Fon kingdom of Dahomey
		The precolonial history of the south is closely tied to the rise of the Fon kingdom of Dahomey (actually Danhomë), with its center in Abomey.
		The dynasty expanded to the south and west, eventually (1724) conquering Allada (known to European traders as Ardra) which according to legends was the "parent-state" of both the Dahomey and later the Porto Novo kingdoms.
		Unfortunately, it was under the aegis of King Glele that slavery was increased, and was the chief major export to European and American slavers, as well as the major source of wealth and economic prosperity of the region.
	www.mamiwata.com /map4.html (400 words)

	Africa - The Last Slave Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	Heritage Access \| Benin
		Benin, is a francophone country rich in history and culture, derived from its pre-colonial vestiges as the Kingdom of Dahomey (Dan-Home).
		The Dahomey Kingdom was founded by the Adja people who migrated from Tado, a region that is currently called Togo.
		The Dahomey Kingdom was a great warrior state, which engaged in numerous wars with neighboring countries and European pre-colonialists.
	www.heritageaccess.com /benin.html (154 words)

	Olayinka Fadahunsi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The kingdom of Dahomey initiated a ritual and military obsession with Oyo following the humbling defeat of Agaja's forces by the Alaafin's army in 1727.
		Avenging this embarrassing loss became a fixation for subsequent monarchs of Dahomey, who instituted a series of rigorous ritual and recreational combat systems in order to secure and expand their dominance over neighboring polities.
		The ritual importance of these exercises, stimulated by decades of combative and cultural contact with Oyo's army and by the incorporation of religious beliefs related to warfare from neighboring 'Anago' groups, is an underrated component of Dahomey's martial reputation and success in the late precolonial era.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/2004/database/fadahunsi.html (253 words)

	Dahomey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Benin, republic in western Africa, formerly known as Dahomey.
		It has a coastline of 121-km (75-mi) on the Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic...
		Dahomey, Kingdom of, West African state (17th-19th century) in what is now the southern part of Benin; its capital was Abomey.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Dahomey.html (56 words)

	About Fon
		Another name for the Fon kingdom is Dahomey (also written Danhome), and much has been written about it because of its prominent role in the slave trade with the Europeans during the 17 and 1800's,.
		Dahomey had the most contact with the French, so the name "Dahomey" was given to the whole country even though the Dahomey kingdom did not extend to the northern half of the country.
		In the early '70's Dahomey's name was changed to Benin because the name "Dahomey" is representative of only one kingdom of the many within Benin's political boundaries, and Benin is a more neutral name that doesn't relate to any specific ethnic group in Benin.
	www.geocities.com /fon_is_fun/about_fon.htm (1867 words)

	Benin
		In the precolonial period, Dahomey was the name of the most powerful kingdom on the Slave Coast, which extended along the Bight of Benin to Lagos.
		From 1904 to 1958, Dahomey was a colony in the federation of French West Africa.
		Although women in the Dahomey kingdom could increase their wealth and power as part of the royal palace organization and often served in primarily male occupations, the general pattern has always been for women to be socially and economically subordinate to men.
	www.everyculture.com /A-Bo/Benin.html (3763 words)

	Pre-colonial African History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Founded in the early 17th century, the Kingdom of Dahomey gradually extended its domination around its capital of Abomey over most of what is now the southern part of Benin.
		After Agaja's death, Dahomey was eclipsed for a time by the neighboring Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, but its power was revived by King Gézo (1818-1858), who extended its frontiers northward.
		The kingdom of Ouagadougou became a vassal of the Songhai in the 15th century, recuperated its autonomy in the 16th and became a protectorate of the French in 1896.
	berclo.net /page99/99en-afr-notes.html (2115 words)

	Newsletter 11.1 Spring 1996 (Conservation at the Getty
		Of the many European travelers to the Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa during the 19th century, explorer and writer Sir Richard Burton was one of the few to leave a detailed written record of his experience.
		Given Dahomey's history, the king's refusal to be submissive in the face of another nation's dictates should not have been surprising.
		The kingdom's main source of wealth was the selling of these prisoners as slaves to Europeans eager for cheap labor to work the plantations and fields of the New World.
	www.getty.edu /conservation/publications/newsletters/11_1/feature1.html (2787 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Dahomey, 1863-1918
		A short war was fought with the Kingdom of Dahomey; on October 3rd 1890 a peace agreement was signd in which Dahomey recognized the French possession of Porto Novo and Cotonou, and France paid Dahomey an annual tribute of 20,000 Francs.
		In 1899, the coastal region of Benin, the kingdom-protectorate of Dahomey and the territories acquired by the French in the north were formed into the colony of Dahomey, the capital of which was Porto Novo.
		In 1904, Dahomey was integrated into French West Africa, the administration of which was seated at Dakar (Senegal).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/dahomey18631918.html (440 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Benin
		In 1860 a mission was founded in the former Kingdom of Dahomey, but as this name was disliked by the inhabitants the title was changed to "Vicariate of the Coast of Benin".
		The mission of Dahomey was separated from Benin in 1882 and made a Prefecture Apostolic, in 1901 a Vicariate Apostolic.
		Constrained to defend themselves against raids from Dahomey, the native fls have gathered in Abeokuta, on the left bank of the Ogun, in large numbers, variously estimated from 150,000 to 200,000, and have surrounded the city, or collection of 140 villages, with a wall twenty-four miles in circuit.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02480a.htm (688 words)

	Dahomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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
		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.
	home.planet.nl /~bakk4502/African_Stamps/france/dahomey.htm (130 words)

	Benin
		By the 17th century, the kingdom, ruled by an oba, stretched beyond the borders of present-day Benin, covered a large part of West-Africa.
		The kingdom was prosperous and established slave trading relations with the Europeans (mostly Portuguese and Dutch) who first arrived in the late 15th century.
		The coastal part of the kingdom became known as the Slave Coast.
	www.creekin.net /n20-benin.html (809 words)

	Map of Dahomey
		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.stmarys.ca /~wmills/course316/Dahomey_map.html (100 words)

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