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Look up: Oyo

  1. Oyo
    `Oyo` can refer to: In Nigeria: *The Oyo Empire or Kingdom, a former West-African empire that covered parts of modern-day Nigeria and Benin *Oyo State, a present-day state of Nigeria named after the Oyo Empire *Oyo, a city in Oyo State founded in the 1830s as the capital of the Oyo Kingdom *(Old) Oyo, or Katunga or Oyo-Ile was the capital city of the Oyo Kingdom until destroyed by the Fulani in the 1830s. Elsewhere: *Oyo (Congo), a city located ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyo

  2. Oyo
    (from the article `Ewe`) ...Togo who speak various dialects of Ewe, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Ewe unity is based on language and common ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/44

  3. Oyo
    state, western Nigeria. Oyo was reduced in size when Osun state was created out of its eastern portion in 1991. Oyo is bounded by the states of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/44

  4. Oyo
    town, Oyo state, southwestern Nigeria. Oyo lies 32 miles (51 km) north of Ibadan. In the 1830s it was declared the new seat of the alafin of Oyo (the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/44

  5. Oyo
    Oyo (ôyô') , city (1991 est. pop. 226,700), SW Nigeria. It is primarily a farming town, producing tobacco, yams, and cassava. Traditional artisans make textiles and leather goods and carve utensils from shells of the calabash gourd. Oyo was founded c.1835 as the successor of Old Oyo ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A083


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