Allada
Allada is a town, arrondissement, and commune, located in the Atlantique Department of Benin. The current town of Allada corresponds to Great Ardra, which was the capital of an Adja-Eʋe kingdom also called Allada, which existed as a sovereign kingdom from around the 13th or 14th century until 1724, when it fell to the armies of neighbour Kingdom of Dahomey.
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- City with about 130,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 80 metres (250 feet)
- Description: commune and city in Atlantique Department, Benin
- Also known as“Commune de Allada - Bénin”“Commune of Allada”
Places of Interest
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Toussaint Louverture Square
Toussaint Louverture Square is a monument.
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Togoudo
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Attogon
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8 km southwest of Allada
Allada
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Latitude
6.66584° or 6° 39′ 57″ north
Longitude
2.15119° or 2° 9′ 4″ east
Open location code
6FR4M582+8F
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Allada” goes by many names.
አላዳAmharic
ألاداArabic
AlladaAzerbaijani
AlladaBasque
আল্লাদাBengali
regne d’AlladaCatalan
AlladaCebuano
Commune of AlladaCebuano
阿拉達Chinese
AlladaIndonesian
AlladaItalian
アラダJapanese
AlladaJavanese
АлладаKazakh
АлладаKirghiz
AladaLithuanian
Alada (miestas)Lithuanian
AlladaMalay
AlladaNorthern Frisian
AlladaNorwegian
AlladaNorwegian Bokmål
AlladaOromo
ਅਲਾਦਾPanjabi
الاداPersian
AlladaPolish
الاداPushto
AlladaRomanian
АлладаRussian
AlladaSerbo-Croatian
AlladaSwedish
АлладаTajik
АлладаTatar
AlladaTurkish
الاداUrdu
الادہUrdu
AlladaUzbek
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