Tado
Sign in to saveTado (formerly Ezame) is a historical village in southeast Togo, alongside the Mono River, near the border with Benin, in between Notsé in the center south of Togo and Abomey in Benin, two cities connected to its history. Tado is the former royal city of the Kingdom Of Tado, one of the oldest, longest-standing and most powerful kingdoms of south west Africa. Tado is the birthplace of many west african tribes, civilisations, cultures, kingdoms and bloodlines that have spread across Togo, Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, through a kingdom that lasted over 900 years.
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- Locality
- Konohoué
- Region
- Région des Plateaux
- Country
- Togo
- Population
- 0
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Tado (formerly Ezame) is a historical village in southeast Togo, alongside the Mono River, near the border with Benin, in between Notsé in the center south of Togo and Abomey in Benin, two cities connected to its history. Tado is the former royal city of the Kingdom Of Tado, one of the oldest, longest-standing and most powerful kingdoms of south west Africa. Tado is the birthplace of many west african tribes, civilisations, cultures, kingdoms and bloodlines that have spread across Togo, Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, through a kingdom that lasted over 900 years.
== HISTORY == Ezame is recorded as the village that gave birth to the royal city of Tado and its many tribes, civilisations and cultures. Eza is the name of a local tree, and Ezame means “to be implanted inside the Eza trees”. Iin the Kingdom of Tado ruled the "Anyigbãfio" which translates to the "Kings of the Earth" in Aja language.
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