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ID: 7030378
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7030378
Record Type:
administrative
Dahomey (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 27 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 002 10 48 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.1800
decimal degrees
Note:
Kingdom was located in the southern part of modern Benin, into southeast Togo. Flourished 17th-19th centuries.
Names:
Dahomey
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Dahomey Kingdom
(
C
,
V
)
Fon
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Dahomey
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
kingdom (
H
)
Related geographic places:
historical connection ....
Benin
.......... (nation)
........................................
(World, Africa) [1000160]
historical connection ....
Togo
.......... (nation)
........................................
(World, Africa) [7016577]
Sources and Contributors:
Dahomey..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 12 August 2004
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
310
Dahomey Kingdom..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Shillington, Encyclopedia of African History (2005)
1: 236
Fon..........
[
VP
]
...........
Middleton, World Monarchies and Dynasties (2005)
306
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 12 August 2004
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
310
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 12 August 2004
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