Oyo Empire - Wikipedia
The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa. It was located in present-day southern Benin and western Nigeria (including the South West zone and the western half of the North Central zone).
Oyo empire | History, Definition, Map, & Facts | Britannica
Oyo empire, Yoruba state north of Lagos, in present-day southwestern Nigeria, that dominated, during its apogee (1650–1750), most of the states between the Volta River in the west and the Niger River in the east. It was the most important and authoritative of all …
Oyo Empire - World History Encyclopedia
2020年4月2日 · The Oyo Empire flourished from the 17th to 19th century CE in what is today southwest Nigeria. The Oyo forged an empire thanks to their formidable cavalry units and so came to dominate other Yoruba peoples of the region.
Kingdom of Oyo (ca. 1500-1837) - Blackpast
2009年6月16日 · Oyo, a pre-colonial kingdom in present-day Nigeria, was founded in the 1300s. Established by Oranmiyan of the Yoruba people of West Africa, Oyo quickly grew to become one of the most powerful states in the Yoruba-speaking region.
Oyo Empire - New World Encyclopedia
The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland (Nigeria), it was also the most important and authoritative of all the early Yoruba principalities.
Legends of Africa: The Oyo Empire (c. 1400 – 1835)
2021年2月27日 · The Oyo Empire of present-day Nigeria was a West African empire (c. 1400-1835). The empire arose at the turn of the 14th century from a kingdom founded by the Yoruba and grew to become one of the largest West African states encountered by colonial explorers.
Oyo Expansion, Yoruba Kingdoms, Slave Trade - Britannica
4 天之前 · Toward the end of the 17th century the northernmost Yoruba kingdom, Oyo, began to turn away from its traditional rivalry with the adjacent savanna kingdoms of Nupe and Borgu and to use its cavalry to assert control of the trade routes through the open country southwestward to the small Aja states on the coast in which the Europeans had ...
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE OYO EMPIRE: THE GREAT AFRICAN …
2022年10月25日 · An important Yoruba empire, known as the Old Oyo Empire, once encompassed parts of what are now the countries of Benin and Western Nigeria. It flourished as a result of the remarkable organizational and administrative abilities possessed by …
Benin, Oyo, and Dahomey - Expedition Magazine
These states included the Edo kingdom of Benin, the Fon kingdom of Dahomey, and a series of Yoruba kingdoms, the most famous of which was Oyo (see map). All of these states based their political supremacy on violence and aggression. Fig. 1. Map – Guinea Coast.
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo …
2022年12月18日 · The rise of Oyo empire as the dominant state of the Yorubaland owed much to its complex political structure, whose elaborate system of government that distributed authority among different institutions, enabled Oyo to project its power across a relatively vast region covering nearly 150,000 sqkm.