Béhanzin
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Gbehanzin, also known as Béhanzin ( – 10 December 1906), is considered the eleventh (if Adandozan is not counted) King of Dahomey, modern-day Republic of Benin. Upon taking the throne, he changed his name from Kondo.
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Key facts
- Monarch.name
- Gbehanzin
- Monarch.title
- King of Dahomey
- Monarch.image
- Behanzin-1895.jpg
- Monarch.caption
- King Béhanzin,
- Monarch.reign
- –
- Monarch.predecessor
- Glele
- Monarch.successor
- Agoli-agbo
- Monarch.father
- Glele
- Monarch.death_place
- Algiers, French Algeria
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dahomey
- Place of death
- Blida
- Father
- Glele
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- King of Dahomey
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Behanzin (2).jpg
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- Behanzin
- date of death
- 1906-12-10
- date of birth
- 1844-09-07
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Biography
- First Franco-Dahomean War
- Second Franco-Dahomean War
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Gbehanzin, also known as Béhanzin ( – 10 December 1906), is considered the eleventh (if Adandozan is not counted) King of Dahomey, modern-day Republic of Benin. Upon taking the throne, he changed his name from Kondo.
Following his father Glele's suicide, Béhanzin ascended the throne in January 1890 and ruled until 1894, when he was defeated by the French in the Second Franco-Dahomean War and exiled to Martinique. Béhanzin was Dahomey's last independent ruler established through traditional power structures. He led the resistance to French colonization of his kingdom, during the Dahomey Wars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Béhanzin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.