History of Benin
XVâ. – at country coast have got Portuguese slave trader.XVIIâ. – Dutches, Frenchmen and Englishmen have joined them. The territory has received the name “Slave coast”.The country has received independence on August, 1st, 1960. At that time it carried the name Dahomey, the present name the country has received in 1975 Benin a member of the United Nations, ÃÀÒÒ, IMF, the CART, the Organizations of the African unity.