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The settlement was founded in 1600 by tribes e. The founder of the kingdom, Prince adja you Agbanlin gave the name Hôgbonou (entrance Mare), while the tribe Yoruba gave name Adjatchè (conquered adja). In 1730, the Portuguese Eucharistus city of Campos gave the name of Puerto - Nuevo, resembling the city of Porto portuhez. Porto Novo became a Portuguese maritime base. Later it became the capital of an independent kingdom, but in the second half of the nineteenth century, was included in the kingdom of Dahomey. After the French conquest becomes, in 1893, the administrative center of the colony, and in 1960, the Benin independently.
Portonovo | Porto Novo, Benin republic's capital, is located in the lagoon of the same name, 13 km from the mouth of the river Oueme in the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Benin) and about 30 km from Cotonou, the largest city in the country
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