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Abomey

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Abomey , town (1992 pop. 66,595), S Benin. It is the trade center for an agricultural region where grain, peanuts, and palm products are processed. The town is linked by railroad with Cotonou . Abomey was the capital of the kingdom of Dahomey (see Benin , founded in the early 17th cent. It dominated production and trade with European companies on the Slave Coast until the late 19th cent. Abomey was conquered by the French between 1892 and 1894. Ruins of the palaces of former Dahomey kings remain, and there is a museum. Author not available, ABOMEY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia,... Read more

Abomey
Abomey, Benin ‘Within the Fortification’, corrupted from agbo ‘fortification’ and mi ‘within’. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Abomey, later Dahomey ( Benin ), in the 17th century and was known for its magnificent palace compound which was enclosed by a... Read more

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...Republic of Benin Major Cities: Cotonou, Porto Novo Other Cities: Abomey, Ouidah, Parakou EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted from...small principalities, most of them tributary to the Kingdom of Abomey, which had dominated the Yorubas and other coastal tribes. The... Read more

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	Bas-Reliefs Of Royal Palaces Of Abomey To Be Conserved ; ...06-19-1994 Bas-Reliefs Of Royal Palaces Of Abomey To Be Conserved. The bas-reliefs of the Royal palaces of Abomey, one of the most famous and historically...surviving elements of the Royal palaces of Abomey, a group of earthen structures built by... Read more
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	Le Bénin passe à la pratique de la gouvernance ; ...l'Universit de Sherbrooke et l'Universit d'Abomey-Cavali au Bnin met sur pied une formation...professeur en sciences politiques l'Universit d'Abomey-Calavi, au Bnin. L'Afrique de l'Ouest...son tablissement appuie l'Universit d'Abomey-Cavali dans la cration d'un diplme d'tudes... Read more
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	Dahomey's Royal Legacy Slowly Crumbles ; ...or restored. "Today the royal city of Abomey has obviously lost its splendor," says...northwest of Cotonou, Benin's largest city. Abomey is now just another hamlet surviving on...been passed down in the oral tradition of Abomey," according to UNESCO. Most of the artworks... Read more
	BENIN'S ART OF HISTORY ; ...palace of the Dahomey kingdom was built at Abomey. Houegbadja was the third king of a royal...royal palaces. Today, the royal palaces at Abomey with their bas reliefs are recognised...ordered the palaces, tombs and temples of Abomey to be torched rather than allowing them... Read more
	Scotland's forgotten explorer: overshadowed by Livingstone, Burton and Stanley, the exploits of the hapless John Duncan have been all but forgotten. Derek O'Connor tells the story of a pioneering Scottish explorer in the old West African French colony of Dahomey.(Cover Story) ; On a blisteringly hot day in June 1845, a tall Scot on a tiny horse rode into Abomey, capital of the infamous West African slave-trading nation of Dahomey. In defiance of the equatorial heat, and seemingly of all... Read more
	Profile: Trans-Atlantic slave trade ; ...Dahomey. The story of these feared kings reposes in the memory of the tribe's oral historian, the griot. Here in the city of Abomey, once the capital of the Dahomean kingdom, the old man makes himself comfortable in a wooden chair. Neighbors sit nearby and... Read more
	An Ode to ancestors.(Looking and Learning) ; ...are still part of the Fon worldview, although many Fon have adapted the Christian faith. More than a century ago, the city of Abomey, approximately eighty miles from the coast, was the capital of the Fon people's kingdom of Dahomey, At the center of the city... Read more
	French kiss will be a kiss of death.(News) ; ...transported a shipment of nuclear waste from Le Havre in France. The shipment is reportedly buried in Saklo also in the Abomey region. It's time to speak up against the numerous lethal disadvantages of nuclear waste. Samantha Martin Johannesburg Read more

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