How To Use Dahomey In A Sentence
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Today Benin includes not only the ancient Fon kingdom of Dahomey but also areas inhabited by many other groups.
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This generation ought surely to be the last to laugh at such a story, at least as long as the Amazonian guards of the King of Dahomey continue to outvie the men in that relentless ferocity, with which they have subdued every neighboring tribe, save the Christians of Abbeokuta.
Westward Ho!
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Worsening relations between expansionist France and the warlike Fon of the West African kingdom of Dahomey came to a head in 1890.
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The millions of lives lost - to disease, revolt, and suicide - in the months at sea between Dahomey and the plantations of the New World need picturing and sorrow songs more than a lugubrious poeticizing of hyena gods.
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The dry lowland area on the eastern edge of the ecoregion is termed the Dahomey Gap and is a major biogeographical barrier.
Eastern Guinean forests
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Since I hadn't had one, I had to choose at random, and said it had been when I'd first watched blacks being packed aboard on the Dahomey coast, bucks to starboard, wenches to port with the shapeliest females nearest the hatches, for convenience, but I didn't mention that.
THE NUMBERS
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A slave girl from Dahomey now Benin, she is sent along on a mission to ransom the daughter of the last Islamic King of Granada from the Spanish conquerors.
The Enterprise of Death
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The word Dahomey, or more properly Da-omi, means Da's belly.
By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War
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The Fon (founders of the Dahomey kingdom) are the largest group.
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It was also possible in some societies, such as the Fon kingdom of Dahomey or the Igbo, for a woman to acquire the rights of a husband over another woman.
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In 1893, France conquered and annexed Dahomey, which is on the coast; but England controlled the hinterland of Dahomey through the treaties her company had made with the chiefs.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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In 1821 the Kakanfo's threat to Abomey and his capability to defend Oyo territory ended in his rout by the Dahomey army, and by 1830 Shabe had been razed and the cavalry no more to be seen.
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The word voodoo comes from the Fon language of Dahomey now Benin and Togo.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Kerchache, who was born in Rouen, was 24-years-old when he first alighted in the Kingdom of Dahomey now the Republic of Benin with little more than the clothes on his back, a medical kit, a Dictaphone, a camera and an 8mm movie camera.
Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell
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That, and "Dahomey", gives it a really hilarious anachronistic feel.
Video map: Yakko's world!
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With its demoniac passions, its satanic ambition, desecrating the remains of the slain, making goblets of their skulls, and trinkets of their bones, this revolt is a heliograph of Dahomey, and Devildom daguerreotyped more vividly than by
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The Kingdom of Benin (not to be confused with the present-day Republic of Benin, called Dahomey until 1975) had been well known to Europeans since the Age of Exploration; however, the original significance of its artistic objects was never understood.
Dani Karavan's Monumental Work
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2,000 Catholics in Dahomey 1830; active mission in interior 1860; French colonize 1872; resist signing protectorate treaty with Great Britain but after 8 British representatives killed, a British punitive expedition in 1897 destroyed much of Benin City and the country..
A survey of West Africa: a Chronology
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The legendary traveler's books are set not only at the tip of South America but also in Dahomey now Benin, the Welsh border country, Australia and communist Czechoslovakia.
The News From Everywhere
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Jan. 27, 2009 - Jim Hyres (Nation once known as Dahomey / Game with "Out of Gas" cards / Big name in retail jewelry / Myopic Mr.)
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
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About the year 1728 the territory now known as Dahomey was subject to three native dynasties, one of which at that date conquered the other two and set up its own despotism under the present territorial designation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Dahomey is the same as Benin in the previous line name changed in 1975, before Cambodia was called Kampuchea
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