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Te Agbanlin
Te Agbanlin was the founder of the kingdom of Porto-Novo, known locally as Hogbonou, in present-day Benin. According to tradition he was a prince of Allada who left after a succession dispute in the late 17th century and settled by the coastal lagoon among Yoruba-speaking people, where his descendants ruled as kings into the colonial period.
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