dahomey's Usage Examples:

Yet this apparently incoherent aggregate held its ground successfully against the powerful armies often sent against the place both by the king of Dahomey from the west, and by the people of Ibadan from the north-east.

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They include French West Africa, (1:2,000,000; 2nd ed., 1908), French Guinea (1 :500,000; 1902) and the Ivory Coast and Dahomey (1:1,500,000; 1907-1908).

In that year he was ordered to the west coast of Africa, where he visited Dahomey, and contracted fever, which told severely on his constitution.

In the annual "customs" of Dahomey, now abolished, hundreds of human victims were offered.

The coast natives were dependent on the rulers of Dahomey or Porto Novo.

In the north the people are mostly Hausa, in the west they belong to the Tshi-speaking clans, while on the coast they are members of the Ewe (Dahomey) tribes.

Beginning in the south-east corner of the Gold Coast colony this range, composed of quartzites and schists, extends beyond the borders of Togoland into upper Dahomey.

Ivory Coast Dahomey.

by Dahomey, also a French colony.

Synonyms:

Africa, Beninese, Niger River, Benin, Porto Novo, Republic of Benin, Niger, Cotonou, capital of Benin, Ewe,