Dahomey was a highly militaristic society constantly organised for warfare; it captured captives during wars and raids against neighboring societies and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol. [5][6] Other captives became slaves in Daho...

2025年3月4日 · Dahomey, kingdom in western Africa that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries in the region that is now southern Benin. According to tradition, at the beginning of the 17th century three brothers vied for the kingdom of Allada, which, like neighbouring Whydah (now Ouidah), had grown rich on the slave trade.

Dahomey is a 2024 documentary film directed by Mati Diop. It is a dramatised account of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (in modern-day Benin), which were held in a museum in France. The film explores how the artifacts were returned from France to Benin, and the reactions of Beninese people. [4] .

The history of the Kingdom of Dahomey spans 300 years from around 1600 to 1904 with the rise of the Kingdom of Dahomey as a major power on the Atlantic coast of modern-day Benin until the French conquest. The kingdom became a major regional power in the 1720s, when it conquered the coastal kingdoms of Allada and Whydah.

Dahomej, Królestwo Dahomeju (Dahomey) a. Królestwo Fon – historyczne państwo w Afryce Zachodniej, istniejące ok. 1600–1904 na obszarze dzisiejszego Beninu. Stolicą państwa był Abomey. Dahomej został założony na początku XVII w. przez autochtonicznych Fonów, zamieszkujących Płaskowyż Abomey.

Dahomey: Directed by Mati Diop. With Lucrèce Hougbelo, Parfait Vaiayinon, Didier Sedoha Nassangade, Sabine Badjogoumin. The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

Dahomey, a precolonial West African kingdom, is located in what is now southern Benin. Founded in the seventeenth century, Dahomey reached the height of its power and prestige during the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Republika Benin je država u zapadnoj Africi, do 1975. zvana Dahomej. Na jugu izlazi na Beninski zaljev, dio većeg Gvinejskog zaljeva i Atlantskog oceana. Na zapadu graniči s Togom, na sjeveru s Burkinom Faso i Nigerom te na istoku s Nigerijom. Benin ima površinu 112 622 km 2 i ima oko 8 791 832 stanovnika (2009.).

Dahomej (2024) - Historia o powrocie zrabowanych skarbów. 26 obiektów opuszcza Paryż, by po ponad stu latach znaleźć się w Królestwie Dahomeju – dzisiejszym Beninie. W... filmweb.pl

Benin (do 1975 pod nazwą Dahomej), oficjalnie Republika Beninu – państwo w Afryce nad Zatoką Gwinejską. Graniczy z Burkina Faso, Nigrem, Nigerią i Togo, członek Unii Afrykańskiej i ECOWAS. Począwszy od XIII wieku na tereny te zaczęły napływać ludy Adża. Powstało wtedy kilka małych państw, z których pierwsze pojawiły się na wybrzeżu.