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shiffynaani:
Any book you fit recommend on iyo empire history

I want to have a look abeg

LegendHero:
Greatest Military Unit From Each Country:

🇩🇪 Germany – Teutonic Knights (or the Prussian Army)
🇨🇭 Switzerland – Swiss Mercenaries (Reisläufer)
🇮🇪 Ireland – Gallowglass
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Zaporozhian Cossacks
🇫🇮 Finland – Ski Troops (Sissi)
🇭🇺 Hungary – The Black Army
🇨🇿 Czechia – Hussite Wagon Warriors
🇳🇵 Nepal – Gurkhas
🇵🇰 Pakistan – Special Service Group (SSG)
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia – Ikhwan
🇦🇫 Afghanistan – Pashtun Ghazis
🇨🇴 Colombia – Lanceros of the Pantano de Vargas
🇦🇷 Argentina – Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers
🇭🇹 Haiti – Indigenous Army (Armée Indigène)

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ChristCee:
Oyo empire actually stopped the advancement of the fulanis. At it's peak, half of West Africa was controlled by the Oyo empire including Dahomey. For many years Dahomey paid tributes to the Oyo Empire. Because America defeated the Brits and got their independence does not erode the accomplishments of the British empire and Great Britain.

galantjoe:
Nigeria - Igbo Ekumeku warriors

Igbo Ekumeku warriors gave British colonisers 10 years of resistance
List of defeats of Oyo Calvary
1. British colonists within a year of resistance
2. Fulani captured Ilorin
3 Ibadan was founded and became independent of oyo empire
4. Dahomey became independent too
5. Olubadan supercede Alafin of Oyi
7. Capital of old Oyo empire is now a village in oyo state while ibadan becomes center of Yoruba tribe

helinues:
Majority of those war was based on land grabbing

Salewa97:
Benin was never an empire.

Them get Calvary and how many be them military?

joeyswift:
The bini empire igodomigodo warriors were far ahead of the oyo calvary.

ChristCee:
Oyo empire actually stopped the advancement of the fulanis. At it's peak, half of West Africa was controlled by the Oyo empire including Dahomey. For many years Dahomey paid tributes to the Oyo Empire. Because America defeated the Brits and got their independence does not erode the accomplishments of the British empire and Great Britain.

cliffypatt:
What you wrote about the oyo is a lie, which half of West Africa did oyo control?

Oyo that lost ilorin to the fulanis, for defeated by dahomey Amazons and even lost the kiriji war. Please stop writing or saying what isn't right.

ChristCee:
1. The "Gap of Benin" Dominance At its zenith, the Oyo Empire did not just control Yorubaland; it effectively controlled the strategic corridor known as the "Gap of Benin." This stretch of savanna allowed the Oyo cavalry (the backbone of its military) to operate freely down to the coast.
Westward Expansion: Oyo's influence stretched deep into modern-day Benin Republic and Togo. The Kingdom of Dahomey (a powerful military state itself) was a vassal state to Oyo. Dahomey paid annual tribute to the Alaafin of Oyo from 1730 until the empire's decline in the 1820s. The Coast: Oyo controlled the trade routes leading to the key ports of Ajase (Porto-Novo) and Badagry, giving them a stranglehold on the Atlantic trade in that sector.


2. Vassal States and Tribute The proof of an empire is who pays it taxes. Oyo's imperial power was proven by the list of kingdoms that were forced to pay tribute to the Alaafin: [list] []Allada: conquered and subjugated. Dahomey: forced into vassalage after repeated defeats by Oyo cavalry. Nupe and Borgu: While relations fluctuated, Oyo frequently checked these northern neighbors and maintained influence over the Niger River trade crossings.

3. Military Capacity Oyo was unique in the forest region because it utilized a heavy cavalry force. This allowed it to project power hundreds of miles away from its capital, Oyo-Ile. No other state in the Bight of Benin could match this projection of power, allowing Oyo to police a territory larger than the entire modern United Kingdom.

By the way West Africa at the time is different from West Africa today. Oyo controlled half of the Guinea known as West Africa today 🙌

ChristCee:
1. The "Gap of Benin" Dominance At its zenith, the Oyo Empire did not just control Yorubaland; it effectively controlled the strategic corridor known as the "Gap of Benin." This stretch of savanna allowed the Oyo cavalry (the backbone of its military) to operate freely down to the coast.
Westward Expansion: Oyo's influence stretched deep into modern-day Benin Republic and Togo. The Kingdom of Dahomey (a powerful military state itself) was a vassal state to Oyo. Dahomey paid annual tribute to the Alaafin of Oyo from 1730 until the empire's decline in the 1820s. The Coast: Oyo controlled the trade routes leading to the key ports of Ajase (Porto-Novo) and Badagry, giving them a stranglehold on the Atlantic trade in that sector.


2. Vassal States and Tribute The proof of an empire is who pays it taxes. Oyo's imperial power was proven by the list of kingdoms that were forced to pay tribute to the Alaafin: [list] []Allada: conquered and subjugated. Dahomey: forced into vassalage after repeated defeats by Oyo cavalry. Nupe and Borgu: While relations fluctuated, Oyo frequently checked these northern neighbors and maintained influence over the Niger River trade crossings.

3. Military Capacity Oyo was unique in the forest region because it utilized a heavy cavalry force. This allowed it to project power hundreds of miles away from its capital, Oyo-Ile. No other state in the Bight of Benin could match this projection of power, allowing Oyo to police a territory larger than the entire modern United Kingdom.

By the way West Africa at the time is different from West Africa today. Oyo controlled half of the Guinea known as West Africa today 🙌

chiagozien:
The same oya soldiers that dehomey women defeated or another one?



How come they lost kwara to fulanis?

galantjoe:
Igbo do not believe in kingship and empire. They live in communities without king. But did organize themselves whenever there was a common threat to various community. That was how Ekumeku warriors was formed to fight British imperialism in Igbo land. That was why igboland was nation that was colonized in Nigeria colonisation history

shiffynaani:
Any book you fit recommend on iyo empire history

I want to have a look abeg

chiagozien:
The same oya soldiers that dehomey women defeated or another one?



How come they lost kwara to fulanis?

Karlovich:
Very good, now do a list of cowards from all countries

galantjoe:
Nigeria - Igbo Ekumeku warriors

Igbo Ekumeku warriors gave British colonisers 10 years of resistance
List of defeats of Oyo Calvary
1. British colonists within a year of resistance
2. Fulani captured Ilorin
3 Ibadan was founded and became independent of oyo empire
4. Dahomey became independent too
5. Olubadan supercede Alafin of Oyi
7. Capital of old Oyo empire is now a village in oyo state while ibadan becomes center of Yoruba tribe

Sccarrr:
why this thing dey pain una like this, ekumeku warrior kor olongbomeku warrior ni, this one think na local vigilante group den dey list 😹😹

Christistruth03:
Do you know why the King of dahomey was reduced to using Women as fighters,?

Alaafin and the Oyos had wiped out the dahomey Army at least 5 times

dahomey ran out of fighting men.
Truly !!

It was oyo that took Badagry and Porto Novo from the King of dahomey in war
That is why Badagry is part of Nigeria today

Till Today they are both part of Yorubaland

dahomey paid Tribute to oyo for about a Century


King Ghezo of dahomey that attacked Abeokuta had been taught the Art of Warfare in Alaafin's Palace while he was being raised by Alaafin as a Hostage Prince of dahomey

Alaafin wanted to use him as an Ally against the Ashanti of Ghana who were always attacking Alaafins Subjects the Ewe of Ghana so Alaafin equipped Ghezo with Military Training to do so at the same time as granting dahomey more Autonomy

It was Power Drunk Af0nja at Ilorin that messed up everything otherwise Dahomey would have still been under Oyo Kingdom

Raf4:
But yours lost the entire coastal area and major part of the most fertile mainland to your neighbour minorities. Today you're only bequeathed a bushy small parcel of hinterland

chiagozien:
The same oya soldiers that dehomey women defeated or another one?



How come they lost kwara to fulanis?

Ubanz:
They omitted Germany,then inserted Nigeria. E get as this ur stats be.
Hahahaha

Helinuse:
We must not lie just because we want to join others in a story.

There is nothing like the Oyo Calvary.

We only know of the Oyo Empire.

Putinofrussia:
Only the great Yoruba put Nigeria's map on the greatest Military Empires and greatest Powers ever.
No wonder just 200 of them decimated and obliterated battalions of armies at Ore
What a warrior race!
What a people!