Aneho
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| 6 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N , 1 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |||
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 Togo
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| Region : | Maritime | ||
| Prefecture : | Lacs | ||
| Residents : | 48,000 (2005) | ||
Aného or Anecho (formerly Popovi , Klein-Popo , Kleinpopo and Petit Popo ) is the eighth largest city of Togo with around 28,000 inhabitants . It is located in the south-east of the country, right on the border of the neighboring state of Benin on a large lagoon between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Togo in the Maritime region . The capital Lomé is about 45 kilometers away.
history
Originally the place where there was a Portuguese slave market was known as Popovi. At the beginning of German colonial rule in 1884, Anecho was briefly occupied by the French. In exchange for Kapitaï and Koba , the later Conakry in Guinea, the city was added to Germany in the border treaty of December 24, 1885. From 1885 to 1897, Sebe, a small town on the north side of the lagoon near Anecho, was the seat of the central administration of the German colony Togo , from the larger, eastern half of which later became the state of Togo. After Sebe had to give up the capital status to Lomé in 1897, Aného experienced a gradual decline, which was exacerbated by erosion phenomena on the coasts.
In 1905 it was renamed to today's place name . In the same year, the place received a railway connection through the Lomé – Aného railway.
Economy, tourism and attractions
The city lives mainly from agriculture and fishing . Various buildings from the German colonial era can be found in the city and the surrounding area .
Religions
From a religious point of view, Aného is a city shaped by voodoo and Christianity .
Churches
Noteworthy buildings are the Protestant church, built in 1895, during the German colonial era , and the cathedral of the Aného diocese of the Roman Catholic Church , built in 1898 .
voodoo
Aného is also a center of voodoo along the West African pilgrimage route Voodoo Trail , which connects Lomé with Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso .
Attractions
In the Adido district there is an old German cemetery with very well preserved graves, the inscriptions of which are easy to read and tell a piece of colonial history.
Also worth seeing is a small museum , which is equipped with pictures and objects from the German colonial era.
Partnerships
In Nuremberg , Action Développement Togo is trying to establish a partnership between the city of Nuremberg and Aného.
Web links
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- Meyer's large pocket dictionary in 24 volumes . BI-Taschenbuchverlag 1992, Volume 1, p. 296.
- Norbert Eder: TOGO incl. Sahara crossing , Verlag Martin Velbinger, Graefelfing / Munich, 1992, ISBN 3-88316-049-0
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d https://www.liportal.de/togo/geschichte-staat/
- ↑ https://deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/wordpress/projekte/kolonien/togo/
- ↑ https://www.diplomica-verlag.de/geschichte_24/die-deutsche-medizin-erobert-togo-beispiel-des-nachtigal-krankenhauses-in-klein-popo-anecho-1884-1914_154565.htm
- ↑ https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/ville/An%c3%a9ho/105458
- ↑ https://www.goethe.de/ins/tg/de/kul/sup/dsi/ane/20809028.html
- ↑ www.world-gazetteer.com ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Wilfried Westphal: History of the German colonies . Bindlach: Gondrom, 1991, p. 197, ISBN 3-8112-0905-1 .
- ↑ Sebe. In: German Colonial Lexicon . 1920, Volume III, p. 328.
- ^ North South Travel: The Voodoo Trail . ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vancouver 2015
- ↑ Giving joy to yourself and others- .. (PDF) Christmas campaign by the Office for International Relations of the City of Nuremberg on the “Market of Twin Cities” 2018. City of Nuremberg, Office for International Relations, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
- ^ Initiative twin town Aného. Action Développement Togo, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
