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Dahomey$18758$ - translation to English

FON ALL-FEMALE MILITARY REGIMENT OF THE HISTORICAL KINGDOM OF DAHOMEY
Ahosi; Mino (warrior); Dahomey Soldiers; Amazon Army of Dahomey; Dahomey amazons; Dahomey Amazon; Amazons of Dahomey; Agojie; Agoji; Agoodjies; Dahomey Agojie; Women warriors in Dahomey
  • Dahomey Amazons with the king at their head, going to war – 1793
  • A group portrait of the so-called "Amazons from Dahomey" during their stay in Paris, 1891
  • [[Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh]], a leader of the Amazons, drawing by Frederick Edwyn Forbes, 1851
  • The Dahomey Mino around 1890
  • Veterans at the annual meeting in Abomey in 1908

Dahomey      
n. Dahomey, ex-Benin (país en África occidental)

Definition

Beninese
[?b?n?'ni:z]
¦ noun a native or inhabitant of Benin, a country in West Africa.
¦ adjective relating to Benin or its people.

Wikipedia

Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons (Fon: Agojie, Agoji, Mino, or Minon) were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (in today's Benin, West Africa) that existed from the 17th century until the late 19th century. They are one of the few documented female armies in modern history. They were named Amazons by Western Europeans who encountered them, due to the story of the female warriors of Amazons in Greek mythology.

The emergence of an all-female military regiment was the result of Dahomey's male population facing high casualties in the increasingly frequent violence and warfare with neighbouring West African states. This led to Dahomey being one of the leading states in the slave trade with the Oyo Empire, which used slaves for commodity exchange in West Africa until the slave trade in the region ended. The lack of men likely led the kings of Dahomey to recruit women into the army.