Oyo
Oyo See also Oyo, Republic of Congo . Oyo (Ọyọ in Yoruba orthography ... modern-day Nigeria and also the loose empire which that city controlled in the 17th ... 18th centuries. What was to become the Oyo empire began as the state of ...
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Yoruba
... political sanction from Ọyọ. The southeastern Benin Empire, ruled by a dynasty that traced its ... with the Sokoto Caliphate, a militant Muslim empire founded by the Fulani Quranic scholar Uthman ... Ile, the capital city of the Ọyọ Empire. After losing the northern portion of their ... Mesi. Ibadan, a city-state and proto-empire founded in the 19th century by a ... resisted the imperial domination of the Ọyọ Empire, a figure named Lisabi is credited ...
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History of Nigeria
... of Nigeria Statue of the orisha Eshu, Oyo, Nigeria, c1920. Early History Recent archaeological research ... who had hereditary right to the office. Oyo and Benin During the 15th century, Oyo and Benin surpassed Ife as political and ... Ife model of government was adapted at Oyo, where a member of its ruling dynasty ... smaller city-states. A state council (the Oyo Mesi) named the alafin (king) and ...
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History of West Africa
... states to form, beginning with the Ghana Empire. The empire was founded in the eighth century by ... city of Kumbi Saleh. After 800, the empire expanded rapidly, coming to dominate the entire western Sudan; at its height, the empire could field an army of 200,000 ... the Almoravids launched a jihad against the empire, sacking Kumbi Saleh. The first successor ...
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Crown jewels
... see Emperor Bokassa and the Central African Empire. Egypt Ancient Egypt The treasures of the ... Ilorin - Jos - Kano - Katsina - Lagos - Onitsha - Oshogbo - Oyo - Sokoto - Tiv - Warri - Zaria (Zazzau) - Zamfara The ... the Tower of London. See also: Moghul Empire and the Princely States. Indonesia Indonesia has ... the communist authorities. Europe Austria (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Holy Roman Empire) Imperial Crown of Austria The Austrian ...
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History of Africa
... extent in the period called the New Empire (1567-1085 B.C.). The Egyptians reached ... be followed in entries for the Roman Empire and for its individual provinces in the ... Cyrene had become incorporated in the Roman empire. Under Rome the settled portions of the ... in the following century to the Byzantine Empire. All of these topics are expounded upon ... religion of the mansas of the Mali Empire (c. 1235-1400) and many rulers ...
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User:Dvyost
... Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali ... 1240, securing the future of the Mali Empire? ...that the Peul preacher and social reformer ... Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire? ...that Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth ... used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire? ...that Liberia is the only nation ...
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West Africa
... to form, beginning with the Soninke Ghana Empire in the eighth century. Based around the ... Kumbi Saleh in modern-day Mauritania, the empire came to dominate much the region until ... by Almoravid invaders in 1052. The Sosso Empire sought to fill the void, but was ... Sundiata Keita, founder of the new Mali Empire. The Mali Empire continued to flourish for several centuries ( ...
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Yoruba language
... Yorubaland and is comprised of today's Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Kwara, and Lagos states as ... densely forested; the northern part however, including Oyo, lies in the savanna to the north ... is historically a part of the Ọyọ empire . In NWY dialects, Proto-Yoruba /gh/ (the ... a long time part of the Benin Empire . In contrast to NWY, lineage and descent ...
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User:O^O/Temp002
... other networks. This user supports the Galactic Empire. This user gambles. {{{1}}} This user plays ... be a Russian and suffers from Russian Empire nostalgia. This user is a Rutgers Scarlet ... This user is interested in the Sassanid Empire. Sat