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ID: 8698277
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698277
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Itsekeri (former nation/state/empire)  Itsekeri (former nation/state/empire)

Note: West African kingdom, offshoot of the kingdom of Benin. Dominated the region by the time the Europeans arrived in the 16th century. Sovereign replaced by council of elders after the last olu, Akengbuwa, died in 1848. Became part of British protectorate of Nigeria by the end of the 1884.

Names:
Itsekeri (preferred,C,V)
Warri (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Nigeria (nation)  ........  Nigeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Itsekeri (former nation/state/empire)  ............  Itsekeri (former nation/state/empire) (P)

Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (preferred, C)  ............  1480-1884
kingdom (H)

Related geographic places:
capital is ....  Warri .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Oceania, Australia, New South Wales) [7790212]

Sources and Contributors:
Itsekeri..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Middleton, World Monarchies and Dynasties (2005) 446
Warri..........  [VP]
..............  Middleton, World Monarchies and Dynasties (2005) 446
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Middleton, World Monarchies and Dynasties (2005) 446-447

 

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