Olfert Dapper (January 1636 – 29 December 1689) was a Dutch physician and writer who wrote books about world history and geography although he never travelled...

Olfert Dapper. Among other things, the book contains a rare description of the Kingdom of Benin which explicitly mentions the Benin Bronzes. Dapper never...

structures by length, second only to China's Great Wall. It was described by Olfert Dapper in his book Description of Africa in 1668 as the Great Walls of Benin...

Look up dapper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dapper may refer to: Cliff Dapper (1920–2011), Major League Baseball catcher Olfert Dapper (1635–1689)...

Private Place. In 2012, Beagle published a novelet, Olfert Dapper's Day, a fictional tale of Dapper's travels. There have been many print editions of The...

recently begun. Olfert Dapper reported that Niambi possessed several firearms, although he didn't know how to use them. "Olfert Dapper". Christian-Muslim...

in the 1630s or '40s. In their account as reported by the geographer Olfert Dapper, the region where Loango would be constructed was populated by a number...

Valéry, Paris, France. The museum opened in 1986, as an effort of the Olfert Dapper Foundation, and was named in honour of a Dutch humanist who in 1668...

arbiters in political and military decisions" and also performed burials. Olfert Dapper described the chibados as shamans "who walk dressed like women." Portuguese...

representations, as can be seen by the included image. According to Olfert Dapper, a 17th-century Dutchman who meticulously collected reports from faraway...