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Béhanzin

1844 - 1906

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Gbehanzin also known as Béhanzin (c. 1845 – 10 December 1906) is considered the eleventh (if Adandozan is not counted) King of Dahomey, modern-day Republic of Benin. Upon taking the throne, he changed his name from Kondo. Following his father Glele's suicide, Béhanzin ascended the throne in January 1890 and ruled until 1894, when he was defeated by the French in the Second Franco-Dahomean War and exiled to Martinique. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béhanzin has received more than 229,947 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Béhanzin is the 10,017th most popular politician (up from 10,690th in 2019).

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Béhanzin ranks 10,017 out of 19,576. Before him are Eriba-Adad I, Aulus Postumius Albinus, King Xi of Zhou, Ivan Smirnov, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Johann Fust. After him are Merneferre Ay, Julia Major, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Robert of Chester, Vasily Golovnin, and Armin Laschet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Béhanzin ranks 56. Before him are George W. De Long, Jenny Longuet, Joshua Slocum, Garret Hobart, Wilhelm Leibl, and Numa Droz. After him are Kuroki Tamemoto, Tivadar Puskás, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Gustave Schlumberger, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, and Ivan Yarkovsky. Among people deceased in 1906, Béhanzin ranks 34. Before him are Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Dame Gruev, Princess Louise of Denmark, Giuseppe Giacosa, Kodama Gentarō, and Vladimir Stasov. After him are Jean Lorrain, Jean Cabanis, Carlos Pellegrini, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Alfred Stevens, and Étienne Carjat.

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