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Savi is a town and Institut National de la Statistique Benin
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Geohive
accessed 31 October 2011 It was previously the capital of the
Savi was the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah prior to its capture by the forces of
arrondissement
An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, and certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands.
Europe
France
The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissem ...
in the Atlantique Department
Atlantique (, "Atlantic") is one of the twelve departments in Benin. The department is located in south-central Benin along the Atlantic coast, between Mono and Kouffo Department in the west, Zou in the north, and Ouémé in the east. The depa ...
of southern Benin
Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its po ...
. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Ouidah
Ouidah (English: ; French: ) or Whydah (; ''Ouidah'', ''Juida'', and ''Juda'' by the French; ''Ajudá'' by the Portuguese; and ''Fida'' by the Dutch), and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on t ...
. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin
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In some countries, institutes ca ...
on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 6949.accessed b
Geohive
accessed 31 October 2011 It was previously the capital of the
Kingdom of Whydah
The Kingdom of Whydah () Known locally as; ''Glexwe'' / ''Glehoue'', but also known and spelt in old literature as; ''Hueda'', ''Whidah,'' ''Ajuda'', ''Ouidah'', ''Whidaw,'' ''Juida'', and ''Juda' (; ) (Negroland to adjacent countries, William ...
.
History
Savi was the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah prior to its capture by the forces of Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history, kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in ...
in 1727.
An account of the city was given by Robert Norris in 1789:
There were British, French, Dutch and Portuguese factories
A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Th ...
in the city, adjacent to the Royal Palace. They were essentially involved in the slave trade.
References
* Norris, Robert (1789), ''Memoirs of the reign of Bossa Ahádee'' London: Printed for W. Lowndes. * Ross, David. "Robert Norris, Agaja, and the Dahomean Conquest of Allada and Whydah" in ''History in Africa'', 16 (1989), 311–324. * Harms, Robert. ''The Diligent: A Journey through the Worlds of the Slave Trade''. New York: Basic Books, 2002. p. 155-156. Populated places in the Atlantique Department Arrondissements of Benin {{benin-geo-stub