Dahomey

Overview

The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within the present-day Republic of Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau among 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 Atlantic Slave Trade.

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Borders & accuracy

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
• SNAPSHOT1850
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire11

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Oyo-Dahomey Wars1710–80
  Major conflict
• Oyo Conquest of Dahomey1726–48
  Major conflict
• Dahomey Conquest of Whydah1727–28
  Major conflict
• Second Franco-Dahomean War1892–94
  Major conflict
• Dahomey Conquest of Allada1724
  Significant
• Egba–Dahomey Wars1844–64
  Significant
• Battle of Abeokuta (1851)1851
  Significant
• First Franco-Dahomean War1890
  Significant
• Battle of Atchoupa1890
  Regional
• Battle of Dogba1892
  Regional
• Battle of Acheribe1893
  Regional