Glele

Glèlè ( probably * 1814, † December 29, 1889 ) was from 1856 to 1889 King of the Kingdom of Dahomey.

King Glèlè prevailed in the capital of the kingdom of Abomey, succeeding his father, King Gézos a thanks to the slave trade with Brazil and Cuba prosperous kingdom. Conflicts occurred repeatedly with the British, as they had the slave trade banned since 1818 and also laid claim to the land. Therefore Glèlè leaned against even when the French and graduated with them in 1878 an agreement to assign the area of Cotonou. The ruins of his palace made ​​of mud is since 1944 a museum.