Oyo (English spelling)

Japanese: オヨ（英語表記）Oyo

A city in western Nigeria, located about 50 km north of Ibadan. From the mid-1830s it was the center of the Oyo Empire. The former Oyo Empire was the most important and prestigious kingdom among the early Yoruba territories, but its capital, Old Oyo (about 130 km north-northeast), was destroyed by the Fulani in the mid-1930s, and the empire itself collapsed in 1939. Oyo later allied with Ibadan during the Yoruba conflicts in the mid-19th century, and when the army of Dahomey (now Benin) invaded in 1887, Oyo allied with Lagos to resist the French, contributing to the establishment of the Yoruba Kingdom as a British protectorate. The main agricultural products are tobacco, cotton, yams, cassava, and corn, and cotton weaving, as well as dyeing, leatherwork, and woodcarving are also produced. Population: 226,300 (1991 estimate).

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Japanese:

ナイジェリア西部の都市。イバダン北方約 50kmに位置。 1830年代中頃から一時オヨ帝国の中心地。かつてのオヨ帝国は，初期のヨルバ族諸領土のなかで最も重要かつ権威ある王国であったが，当時の首都オールドオヨ (北北東約 130km) が 30年代中頃フラニ族の侵略により破壊され，39年帝国そのものが崩壊した。その後オヨは 19世紀中頃のヨルバ族の紛争時にイバダンと提携，87年のダオメー (現ベナン) 軍の侵入の際はラゴスと組んでフランスに抗し，ヨルバ王国のイギリス保護領化に資した。タバコ，綿花，ヤムイモ，キャッサバ，トウモロコシなどの農業を主とし，綿織物のほか染色，皮細工，木彫が行われる。人口 22万 6300 (1991推計) 。

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