Dahomey Definition

Dahomey Sentence Examples

• Beginning in the south-east corner of the Gold Coast colony this range, composed of quartzites and schists, extends beyond the borders of Togoland into upper Dahomey.

• In the north the people are mostly Hausa, in the west they belong to the Tshi-speaking clans, while on the coast they are members of the Ewe (Dahomey) tribes.

• The coast natives were dependent on the rulers of Dahomey or Porto Novo.

• In the annual "customs" of Dahomey, now abolished, hundreds of human victims were offered.

• In that year he was ordered to the west coast of Africa, where he visited Dahomey, and contracted fever, which told severely on his constitution.