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The Kingdom of Whydah was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in the boundaries of the modern nation of Benin. Between 1677 and 1681 it was conquered by the Akwamu, one of the Akan people.〔(Almanac of African peoples & nations ). By Muḥammad Zuhdī Yakan.〕 It was a major slave trading post. In 1700, it had a coastline of around ; under King Haffon, this was expanded to , and stretching inland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 'Diligent': A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade )〕 The Kingdom of Whydah was cented in Savi. The last ruler of Whydah was King Haffon, who was deposed in 1727, when Whydah was conquered (and annexed) by the Kingdom of Dahomey. ==Name== The name ''Whydah'' (also spelt ''Hueda'', ''Whidah'' or ''Whidaw'') is an anglicised form of ''Xwéda'' (pronounced o-wi-dah), from the Yoruba language of Benin. When the Portuguese first settled the southern coast of West Africa, they spelled the name ''Ajudá''. Today the port city of Ouidah, in the far west of the former Popo Kingdom where most of the European slave traders lived and worked, bears the kingdom's name. The area gives its name to the native whydah bird, and to pirate captain "Black Sam" Bellamy's ''Whydah Gally'', a slave ship turned pirate ship, whose wreck has been explored in Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kingdom of Whydah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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