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    Allada [a.la.da] is a town, arrondissement, and commune, located in the Atlantique Department of Benin. The current town of Allada corresponds to Great...
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  • The Kingdom of Ardra, also known as the Kingdom of Allada, was a coastal West African kingdom in southern Benin. While historically a sovereign kingdom...
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  • Ravi Allada (born 1967) is an Indian-American chronobiologist studying the circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep primarily in the fruit fly Drosophila...
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    control of key trade routes for the Atlantic slave trade by conquering Allada (1724) and Whydah (1727). Wars with the powerful Oyo Empire to the east...
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    was created to legitimate rule over the city of Allada and that connections to the royal family in Allada were likely of a limited nature. In oral tradition...
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    it is generally claimed that he settled a large group of Aja people from Allada on the Abomey plateau amongst the local inhabitants in c. 1620. His son...
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  • Allada, also known as Ardrah (Ardra), Ardrah Empire, Adja-Tado. and known to the French as Allada or Ardres. Named for its capital, the modern Allada...
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    they made up for in discipline and superior arms. In 1724, Agaja conquered Allada, the origin for the royal family according to oral tradition, and in 1727...
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  • West-central Africa (Kongo, Mbundu) 15.2 Bight of Benin (Yoruba, Ewe, Fon, Allada and Mahi) 10.1 Windward Coast (Mandé, Kru) 4.8 Sierra Leone (Mende, Temne)...
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  • major regional power in the 1720s when it conquered the coastal kingdoms of Allada and Whydah. With control over these key coastal cities, Dahomey became a...
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  • Allada Barbara Grenville Wells (15 July 1920 – 25 August 1998), known professionally as Barbara Mandell, was a British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader...
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    Gold Coast (Akan, Fon) 13.1 Windward Coast (Mandé, Kru) 5.2 Bight of Benin (Yoruba, Ewe, Fon, Allada and Mahi) 4.3 Southeast Africa (Macua, Malagasy) 1.8...
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    King Agaja of the Kingdom of Dahomey had conquered the coastal cities of Allada and Whydah. Dahomey had become a tributary of the Oyo Empire, and rivaled...
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  • The Allada Normal School for Teachers (French: L'École Normale d'Instituteurs d'Allada, ENI) is a public training college for primary school teachers in...
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    Haiti. Louverture was born into slavery, the eldest son of Hyppolite, an Allada slave from the slave coast of West Africa, and his second wife Pauline,...
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    rulers were originally a part of the ruling class in the Aja kingdom of Allada (also called the Ardra kingdom). The Aja people had a major dispute; one...
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    Houegbadja by Cyr Raoul A. Sehou-Houindo Reign c. 1645–c.1685 Predecessor Dakodonou Successor Akaba Died 1685 (1686) House Aladaxonou (Allada compound/house)....
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    India Company began sending servants regularly to the Ajaland capital of Allada from 1640 onward. The Dutch had in the decades before begun to take an interest...
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    significantly expanded the Kingdom of Dahomey during his reign, notably conquering Allada in 1724 and Whydah in 1727. This increased the size of the kingdom and increased...
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    that Allada was also called Grand Ardra, being the larger cousin of Little Ardra, also known as Offra. From 1660 onward, Dutch presence in Allada and especially...
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  • Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla is the 16th king of the Fon State of Allada in central Benin. He rose to the throne on December 2, 1992 and is the first...
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    Tado, the Ewe people. Around 1550, emigrants from Tado established the Allada (or Alada) kingdom, which became the center of the Fon people. Tado is also...
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    speaking, there seems to have been a wave of migration from the region of Allada further west in the 1600s, which brought Te-Agbalin (or Te Agdanlin) and...
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    Later, Kataya Vema died in a battle with Anna Deva Choda. After his death, Allada Reddi placed Kataya Vemas' son Komaragiri on the throne of Rajamahendravaram...
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    original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022. Wysham NG, Sullivan DR, Allada G (May 2013). "An opportunistic infection associated with ruxolitinib, a...
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  • themselves: Kokpon took the capital city of Great Ardra, reigning over the Allada kingdom; Do-Aklin founded Abomey, which would become capital of the Kingdom...
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    Puthiyaramban is regarded to have been the greatest warrior of the region called Allada Swaroopam, possessing supernatural power as well as knowledge and skill...
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  • Track listing No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length 1. "Njan Jackson Allada" Vinayak Sasikumar Anthony Daasan 4:27 2. "Aaradhike" Vinayak Sasikumar Sooraj...
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    Aguegues Ahomey-Lokpo Ahouannonzoun Akassato Aklankpa Akpassi Akpro-Misserete Allada Angaradebou Aplahoue Athiémè Attogon Avakpa Avame Avlekete Avrankou Ayou...
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    an army, and soon became master of this place, and the country adjacent Allada; the desolation which ensued was so great, that it is impossible to be represented...
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