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Civilizations & Empires

Kingdom of Dahomey

c. 1620s – 1900

West Africa (present-day Benin)

A Fon kingdom centred on Abomey, ruled by twelve successive kings who built adjoining royal palaces. It took the slaving port of Ouidah in 1727 and was conquered by France in the 1890s.

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The Door of No Return memorial arch on the beach at Ouidah, Benin, the slave port Dahomey seized in 1727
Credit: Shubert Ciencia, via Wikimedia Commons (from Flickr). License: CC BY 2.0.

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Sources

  1. UNESCO World Heritage Centre, "Royal Palaces of Abomey" (Primary source)
  2. Robin Law, "Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727–1892" (Introduction), Boydell & Brewer / Cambridge Core (Scholarly)
  3. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Real Warriors Behind 'The Woman King'" (2022) (Reference)

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