Ouidah
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Ouidah or Whydah, and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin. The commune covers an area of 364 km2 and as of 2002 h
Door of No Return, memorial to victims of the Atlantic slave trade
A street of Ouidah in 1892
Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá in 1890
The Temple of the Pythons circa 1900. The temple was the main religious building of pre-colonial Ouidah.
Kingdom of Whydah
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The Kingdom of Whydah was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States, the Caribbea
Ouidah
…Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; Ajudá by the Portuguese; and Fida by the Dutch), and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin. The commune covers an area of 364 km2 (141 sq mi) and as of 2002 had a population of 76,555 people…
Crowning of the King of Juida, by Jacob van der Schley (1715-1779)