o:id
	12658
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12658
o:resource_template
	Book chapter
o:resource_class
	bibo:Chapter
dcterms:title
	Cotonou
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25172
dcterms:date
	2019
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8440
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113954699 Q113954699
	iwac-reference-0000533
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:alternative
	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
dcterms: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…
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/283
dcterms:provenance
	Leiden
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1296
bibo:editorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1348
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1340
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1332
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1345
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1334
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32129 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32129
bibo:edition
	3

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