Ajatche
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Coordinates | 6 ° 29 ′ N , 2 ° 37 ′ E | |
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Country | Benin | |
ISO 3166-2 | BJ | |
Residents | 234.168 | |
founding | 16th Century |
Ajatche was the name of the capital of the Aja der Adja kingdom in what is now the Republic of Benin .
Ajatche was probably founded in the 16th century by Te-Agdanlin, a descendant of the Ardra royal dynasty . The city was later named Porto-Novo by the Portuguese who established a trading post there in the seventeenth century to ship African slaves to America .
When the city or the whole of Aja became a French protectorate on February 23, 1863 , the name Ajatche was finally a thing of the past.