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Ijaye
Ijaye was a Yoruba town in south-western Nigeria that grew as a military and refugee centre after the collapse of the Oyo Empire. It was one of the new powers that emerged in the nineteenth-century Yoruba wars. It was destroyed in a war with Ibadan in the early 1860s.
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