Bird stamps from Dahomey.

Dahomey was an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin) which lasted from about 1600 until 1894, when the last chief Behanzin was defeated by the French and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.

Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 1600s and became a regional power in the 1700s by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast.

For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire.

The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade with European powers, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military.

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Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, a curious all-female military unit known as the Dahomey Amazons, and elaborate superstitious practices of Vodun with the large festival of the Annual Customs of Dahomey.

Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name

1966.01
  13.06.1966
  Birds

African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus Emerald Starling Lamprotornis iris

50f
    9
    African Pygmy Goose    Nettapus auritus

100f
    144
    Fiery-breasted Bushshrike    Malaconotus cruentus

500f
    216
    Emerald Starling    Lamprotornis iris

1967.01
  20.01.1967
  Birds

Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus

200f
    86
    Broad-billed Roller    Eurystomus glaucurus

250f
    72
    African Emerald Cuckoo    Chrysococcyx cupreus

1969.01
  15.11.1969
  Surcharge on 1966.01

African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus

10f
    9
    African Pygmy Goose    Nettapus auritus

1972.01
  28.02.1972
  Winter olympic games, Sapporo, Japan
  2v set

Red-crowned Crane Grus japonensis

150f
    47
    Red-crowned Crane    Grus japonensis

Dahomey-map

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