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  2. Oyo Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa. It was located in present-day southern Benin and western Nigeria (including the South West zone and the western half of the North Central zone). The empire grew to become the largest Yoruba -speaking state through the organizational and administrative efforts of the Yoruba people, trade, as ...

  3. Oyo - Wikipedia

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    Oyo Empire, a former Yoruba state that covered parts of Nigeria and Benin, or the capital city; Oyo State, a present-day state of Nigeria named after the Oyo Empire; Oyo, Oyo State, a city founded in the 1830s as an alternative capital of the remnants of the old Oyo empire

  4. Yoruba people in the Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] Instead, Oyo directed more effort towards trading and acted as middlemen for both the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trades. [6] Europeans bringing salt arrived in Oyo during the reign of King Obalokun. [8] Thanks to its domination of the coast, Oyo merchants were able to trade with Europeans at Porto Novo and Whydah. [9]

  5. Sokoto Caliphate - Wikipedia

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    The Sokoto Caliphate's main involvement with the Oyo Empire was through Ilorin, a northern Yoruba vassal state of the Oyo Empire. The Ilorin, backed by the Sokoto Caliphate, launched a series of attacks against the Oyo Empire. These attacks, combined with internal conflicts, led to the final collapse of the Oyo Empire by the mid-19th century. [26]

  6. Atiba Atobatele - Wikipedia

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    After the death of King Oluewu of Oyo in 1835, the Eleduwe War, and the destruction of the old Oyo Empire, it was decided there was a need to install a prince who had the power and wealth to rebuild. [4] The Oyo Mesi sent emissaries to Prince Atobatele. [4] Immediately after his coronation, he immediately reconstituted the kingdom and conferred ...

  7. Oluyole - Wikipedia

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    Chief Oluyole (fl. c. mid-1800s CE) was a leader and military commander from the Oyo empire. [1] He rose to fame as Bashorun, a title he subsequently made famous, and was one of the leaders who contributed immensely to the military and economic development of Ibadan (the Oyo empire's capital) during the city's formative years, a period which had its share of tumult and uncertainty.

  8. Shango - Wikipedia

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    Ṣàngó was the third Alaafin of Oyo, following Oranmiyan and Ajaka. [3] He brought prosperity to the Oyo Empire. [4] According to Professor Mason's Mythological Account of Heroes and Kings, unlike his peaceful brother Ajaka, he was a powerful and violent ruler. He reigned for seven years which were marked by his continuous campaigns and many ...

  9. List of rulers of the Yoruba state of Oyo - Wikipedia

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    Oyo, Oyo State, is the seat of the line of the rulers of Oyo.Their territory, a constituent rump state, is located in what is now Nigeria.Since the 1900 political absorption into Southern Nigeria of the kingdom that it once served as a metropolitan center, the traditional monarchy has been either a tool of British indirect rule or a legally recognised traditional polity within the republic of ...