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230: 484: 57: 473: 309: 500: 351:. In Kotafon land, Ga kome ( Djanglanmey) which means district of the king was the famous in the colonial time cause the leader busness was the slave trade. they are living from agriculture and fishing. from 1960 Kotafon people are celebrating their traditional festival also called kotafon. Pla people were great fisherman cause their grandfathers were living along the rivers or mono. the traditional leader of Xwla land is Ahoussan heleketche alifa. 643: 1184: 587: 126: 355: 64: 44: 241:
people that once dominated the Togo-Benin coast traditionally regarded Great Hula as their ancestral town of common origin. It is unclear why Europeans began calling it Popo rather than Hula. It may come from a generic
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term "popo" for peoples to their "west", which was subsequently borrowed by the Portuguese to refer to the Hula/Phla specifically. An alternative theory connects the "Popo" term to an ancient ruler called Kpokpo of
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The term "Grand-Popo" is a European exonym for the ancient town and kingdom of "Hulagan" (Great Hula). The
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L’Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique (INSAE), Benin, 2013.
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Robin Law (1991) Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750. Clarendon Press, p.15.
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town in the interior), which the Europeans may have confused with Hulagan.
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has now destroyed most of the old town. The town is now a centre for
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The town inspired the name of the French electronic music duo
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Commune
city

Grand-Popo is located in Benin
6°17′N 1°50′E / 6.283°N 1.833°E / 6.283; 1.833
Benin
Department
Mono Department
Time zone
UTC+1
WAT
[gʁɑ̃.pɔ.po]
arrondissement
commune
Mono Department
Benin

Hula/Xwla/Phla
Yoruba
Tado
Aja
slave trade
coastal erosion
voodoo
Finnish
African
cultural centre
Villa Karo
fishing
Grand Popo Football Club

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