Notsé (also Notsie or Nuatja) is a town in the Plateaux Region of

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. It is the capital of

Haho Prefecture Haho is a Prefectures of Togo, prefecture located in the Plateaux Region (Togo), Plateaux Region of Togo. The prefecture covers 3,051 km2, with a population in 2022 of 305,096. The prefecture seat is located in Notsé. Cantons of Togo, Cant ...

and is situated 95 km north of the capital

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. The town was formed around 1600 by the Ewe people, after they were displaced westward by the expansion of the Yoruba.

History

Founded by tribes from the

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and after a transition through Oyo (

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), Ketou (

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), Adja Tado (

) ,Dogbo and Notse. Notse is the last stage of Ewe migrations around the 15th century.To protect his people from enemies and slave raiders, the chief built an imposing mud wall called " Agbogbo" 14,5 km whose remains are still visible in places. In the seventeenth century, following an internal crisis as a result of oppressive rule by

Togbe Agorkoli Togbe Agorkoli ( Eʋegbe: Togbe Agɔ Akɔli) was a dictator and draconian ruler of Notsie, a town in modern Togo. During his rule, the Ewe people in what is now known as Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West ...

I (Agor Akorli), the Ewe revolted and fled south , east and west to neighboring

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(now

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) and Benin. Those who remained founded the six original quarters (Alinou, Agbaladome (Agbanadome), Adime Ekli, Tegbe and Kpedome) which have district chiefs, notables of the chief Superior who is today Agokoli IV. Notse is also the

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capital. The name Notse is a distortion of the word ''NOIN'' the leader of the group OUPE, who says "we stay here" in the Ewe dialect. Nuatja is a distortion of the same name by the

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colonizers. Notse is located 100 km north of Lome. It is part of the Plateaux Region of which Atakpame is the chief town. More than a ritual feast, "Agbogbo-Za" is the biggest traditional celebration of the Ewe people. It marks the commemoration of the exodus of Ewe people in the 17th century. Etymology Ewe: Noin tsi- Noin remains/stays Or Noin yi tsie- Noin has gone to the land of the dead

References

3 Felix Kuadugah- Etymology of Nortsie {{DEFAULTSORT:Notse Populated places in Plateaux Region, Togo