Flag of Benin
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The national flag of Benin is a flag consisting of two horizontal yellow and red bands on the fly side and a green vertical band at the hoist. Adopted in 1959 to replace the French Tricolour, it was t
Faded mural depicting the national flag in Lissègazoun (2021)
Flags flown in celebration of Fête du Vodoun in Ouidah (2017)
Beninese men waving the national flag on independence day (2016)
Flags outside the Embassy of Benin in Tokyo, Japan (2013)
Dahomey
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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 peo
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…0-96-82-9 RGB 0-136-80 252-210-15 233-9-41 Hexadecimal #008850 #FCD20F #E90929 Historical flags Flag Years of use Ratio Government Description 1818–1859 Kingdom of Dahomey The royal flag of King Ghezo. It featured a white field with a red border and an African war elephant in the center. 1859-c. 1890 King Glele was not…
"Victims for sacrifice" – from The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa, 1793
King Ghezo displayed with a royal umbrella
The reception of the Ah-Haussoo-Noh-Beh in Abomey drawn by Frederick E. Forbes in 1851
In 1894, the last King of Dahomey, Béhanzin, surrendered his person to Alfred-Amédée Dodds