Dahomey
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dahomey-181-7202497
title:
Dahomey
text:
The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic coast which granted it unhindered access to the tricontinental Atlantic Slave Trade. For much of the middle 19th century, the Kingdo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1600–1904 kingdom in West Africa
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey
date created:
2002-02-20T01:01:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T22:36:48Z
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13
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