Allada [a.la.da] is a town, arrondissement, and commune, located in the Atlantique Department of Benin. The current town of Allada corresponds to Great...

The Kingdom of Ardra, also known as the Kingdom of Allada, was a coastal West African kingdom in southern Benin. While historically a sovereign kingdom...

Ravi Allada (born 1967) is an Indian-American chronobiologist studying the circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep primarily in the fruit fly Drosophila...

control of key trade routes for the Atlantic slave trade by conquering Allada (1724) and Whydah (1727). Wars with the powerful Oyo Empire to the east...

was created to legitimate rule over the city of Allada and that connections to the royal family in Allada were likely of a limited nature. In oral tradition...

it is generally claimed that he settled a large group of Aja people from Allada on the Abomey plateau amongst the local inhabitants in c. 1620. His son...

Allada, also known as Ardrah (Ardra), Ardrah Empire, Adja-Tado. and known to the French as Allada or Ardres. Named for its capital, the modern Allada...

West-central Africa (Kongo, Mbundu) 15.2 Bight of Benin (Yoruba, Ewe, Fon, Allada and Mahi) 10.1 Windward Coast (Mandé, Kru) 4.8 Sierra Leone (Mende, Temne)...

major regional power in the 1720s when it conquered the coastal kingdoms of Allada and Whydah. With control over these key coastal cities, Dahomey became a...

rulers were originally a part of the ruling class in the Aja kingdom of Allada (also called the Ardra kingdom). The Aja people had a major dispute; one...