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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. 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 ...

  4. Yoruba people in the Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    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] Here the Oyo Empire's captives and criminals were sold to Dutch and Portuguese buyers. [10] [11]

  5. Oyo Mesi - Wikipedia

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    A statue of Oloye Oluyole of Ibadan, a Bashorun of the Oyo empire in the 19th century. The Oyo Mesi is the privy council of Oyo, a Yoruba traditional state in Southwestern Nigeria. It dates to the medieval period, when it served as the government of a powerful pre-colonial state that was known as the Oyo empire. [1]

  6. 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.

  7. Gaha - Wikipedia

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    Two years after the death of Gaha, Abiodun invited Oyabi, the Kakanfo, to Oyo to honor him; but he was so stricken in health that he died on his way. [4] Abiodun lived until his old age. [4] Peace and prosperity reigned, and Oyo Empire flourished. [4] King Abiodun died in 1789. [2] Kangidi succeeded Gaha as the Basorun of Oyo. [4]

  8. 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

  9. Ọranyan - Wikipedia

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    Ọ̀rànmíyàn, also known as Ọranyan, was a legendary Yoruba king from the kingdom of Ile-Ife, and the founder of the Benin Kingdom and the Oyo Empire. [1] Although he was the youngest of the descendants of Oduduwa, he became the prime heir of Oduduwa upon his return to claim his grandfather's throne.