Igodomigodo is the original name of the Benin Empire used by its own inhabitants (nowadays known as the Edo people of Nigeria).
3-456: According to Edo oral history, Igodomigodo was the name given to the kingdom by Igodo, the first ogiso (King), who founded the first dynasty of what would later be known as the Benin Empire (which existed from around 1180 until 1897 in the area of the present-day Federal Republic of Nigeria (and not in the area of the unrelated, current Republic of Benin ). The ogiso era was replaced by
6-457: Is the 40th Oba and 89th ruler of the dynasty started by Igodo of Igodomigodo. Ogiso An Ogiso is referred to by the people of the Igodomigodo kingdom as king of the sky. This is a list of the independent Ogisos ( Kings ) of Igodomigodo , which was to become the Benin Empire , from roughly 100 BCE - 40 BCE to 1100 CE. The dating is based on the recollection made by Daryl Peavy of
9-446: The oba era, and the name of the kingdom was changed from Igodomigodo to Edo by Oba Eweka I (meaning: greatly annoyed or out of patience), later changed to Eweka. Replacing the era of the ogiso , the oba dynasty was founded by Eweka I , the first Oba (and child of Oranmiyan ). Eweka I renamed his empire Edo, and since then its people have been called Edo people (or ovbi-แบนdo , "child[ren] of Edo"). The current Oba, Ewuare II ,
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