Ajatche

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Ajatche
Coordinates	6 ° 29 ′  N , 2 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 6 ° 29 ′  N , 2 ° 37 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Benin
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.