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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 ...
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.
Eweka thus started a dynasty that now bears his name. Oranmiyan went on to serve as the founder of the Oyo Empire, where he ruled as the first Alaafin of Oyo. He then returned to Ile-Ife where he was the king of Ife until he shape shifted and entered the earth with his horse. His descendants now rule in Ile Ife, Oyo and Benin to this day.
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Oyo Empire is a kingdom in present-day Nigeria, was founded in the 1300s.Established by Oranmiyan of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The empire grew to become the largest Yoruba-speaking state through the organizational and administrative efforts of the Yoruba people, trade, as well as the military use of cavalry.
Ejigbo is an important town in Osun State, Nigeria. It is one of the earliest Yoruba towns, and is as old as Old Oyo founded by Oranmiyan.. Various traditions of Ejigbo origin agree that the founder of present day Ejigbo was a prince of Ile-Ife (son of Ogirinyan, one of the youngest grandsons of Oduduwa of Ife) whose name was Akinjole.
Oranmiyan would later become the first Alaafin of Oyo and, later, the Ooni of Ife. He ruled also in the Kingdom of Benin for a while after a crisis among the people of Benin forced them to consult Oduduwa to send them a ruler who will rule over them, but left to return to Ife after finding the People of the Benin Kingdom ungovernable, Prior to ...
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