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Cotonou - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Miran-Guyon, Marie
Leiden
Brill
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The port city of Cotonou is the major urban centre and economic hub of the West African Republic of Benin (known as Dahomey until 1975), with 679,012 inhabitants in 2013 (14.2 percent were Muslim in 2002). Cotonou was a fishing settlement, tributary to the Danxome (the Fon etymon of Dahomey) kingdom (c. 1600-1894) before the gradual encroachment of the French; it was overshadowed by the older Porto-Novo, the colonial and now political capital, twenty-four kilometres to the east. From the 1850s through the colonial period,
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
9789004356665
Islam.
Miran-Guyon, Marie
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