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Savi is a town in
Savi is a town in Benin
Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
that was the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah prior to its capture by the forces of Dahomey in 1727.
An account of the city was given by Robert Norris in 1789:
There were British, French, Dutch and Portuguese factories
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...
in the city, adjacent to the Royal Palace. They were essentially involved in the slave trade.
References
* Norris, Robert (1789), ''Memoirs of the reign of Bossa Ahádee'' London: Printed for W. Lowndes. * Ross, David. "Robert Norris, Agaja, and the Dahomean Conquest of Allada and Whydah" in ''History in Africa'', 16 (1989), 311–324. * Harms, Robert. ''The Diligent: A Journey through the Worlds of the Slave Trade''. New York: Basic Books, 2002. p. 155-156. Populated places in Benin {{benin-geo-stub