Coloured photograph of a native of the Oil River, Niger Coast Protectorate. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast. From 'The living races of mankind; Volume 2' by Henry Neville Hutchinson (1901). | |
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