Place · city
Abomey
Abomey is a town in southern Benin, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey from the seventeenth century until 1894. Each king built his own palace there, and the Royal Palaces of Abomey, with their painted clay bas-reliefs recording the kingdom's history, were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Behanzin burned much of the town before the French entered it in November 1892.
Mentioned in 1 profile
Mentioned in 2 state histories
See also
Cite this entry
- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Abomey. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/abomey
- MLA
- “Abomey.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/abomey. Accessed .
- Chicago
- The Epoch Institute. “Abomey.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/abomey.
- Harvard
- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Abomey’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/abomey (Accessed: ).
Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻