Cotonou

Title

Cotonou

list of authors

Marie Miran-Guyon

list of editors

Kate Fleet

Gudrun Krämer

Denis Matringe

John Nawas

Everett K. Rowson

Abstract

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…

Book Title

Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

edition

3

Place of Publication

Leiden

Publisher

Brill

Date

2019

Language

Anglais

Type

Article d'encyclopédie

doi

10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32129

Identifier

Q113954699

iwac-reference-0000533

Spatial Coverage

Bénin