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Benin Empire
In one of the knowledge trips that today's information world let us do from our couches I found this eye-catching flag. It belongs to the Benin Empire, a pre-colonial African empire in the area of what we currently call Nigeria. Benin is also a today's country, which lies very close to the old Empire's location, but which should not be confused with.
The Empire and city under this name was, as my recently visited Uganda, a British protectorate, but after the slaying of eight British representatives, the city was conquered and burned in 1897 by a British force.
