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Savi is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Ouidah. According to the population census c
Crowning of the King of Juida (Whydah) in Savi in 1725
The European factories in Savi
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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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…of 6949. It was previously the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah. Savi was the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah prior to its capture by the forces of Dahomey in 1727. An account of the city was given by Robert Norris in 1789…
"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