id
	12658
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/12658
Modèle de ressource
	Book chapter
Classe de ressource
	bibo:Chapter
Titre
	Cotonou
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25172
Date
	2019
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8440
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113954699 Q113954699
	iwac-reference-0000533
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Titre alternatif
	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Résumé
	The port city of Cotonou is the major urban centre and economic hub of the West African Republic of Benin (known as Dahomey until 1975), with 679,012 inhabitants in 2013 (14.2 percent were Muslim in 2002). Cotonou was a fishing settlement, tributary to the Danxome (the Fon etymon of Dahomey) kingdom (c. 1600–1894) before the gradual encroachment of the French; it was overshadowed by the older Porto-Novo, the colonial and now political capital, twenty-four kilometres to the east. From the 1850s throu…
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/283
Provenance
	Leiden
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1296
Liste des rédacteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1348
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1340
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1332
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1345
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1334
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32129 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32129
Numéro d’édition
	3

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