Ovonramwen
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Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, also called Overami, was the thirty-fifth Ọba of the Kingdom of Benin reigning from , up until the British punitive expedition.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Benin Empire
- Place of death
- Calabar
- Child
- Eweka II
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- Oba of Benin
- Languages spoken
- Igbo
- Noble title
- Oba of Benin
- Field of work
- monarch
- Image
- Ovonramwen Nogbaisi with his two wives in Calabar, c1912 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Benin City
- Significant event
- Benin Expedition of 1897
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- date of death
- 1914-01-00
- date of birth
- 1857-01-01
- Commons category
- Ovonramwen
- name in native language
- Ovonramwen Nogbaisi
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- British expedition and overthrow
- Exile
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, also called Overami, was the thirty-fifth Ọba of the Kingdom of Benin reigning from , up until the British punitive expedition.
Born circa 1857, he was the son of Ọba Adọlọ. He took the name Ovọnramwẹn Nọgbaisi at his enthronement in 1888. Every Ọba took a new name at his coronation, Ovọnramwẹn meaning "The Rising Sun" and Nọgbaisi meaning "which spreads over all".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ovonramwen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.