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Gedemo Ile-Ife City-State

Ile-Ife

City-State Trait: Cities adjacent to Woods or Rainforest yield +3 Faith. +33% Gold yield from Commercial Hub buildings.

City-State Type: Religious

History:
Ile-Ife, also called Ife or Ife-Lodun, town, Osun state, southwestern Nigeria. The town lies at the intersection of roads from Ibadan (40 miles [64 km] west), Ilesha, and Ondo. It is one of the larger centres and probably the oldest town of the Yoruba people. Considered by the Yoruba to be a holy city and the legendary birthplace of humankind, it was held to have been founded by a son of the deity Oduduwa and was certainly the capital of a well-established kingdom (probably named for Ifa, the god of divination) by the early 11th century. By the late 12th or early 13th century, its artisans were producing the naturalistic terra-cotta heads and bronze pieces made by the cire perdue (lost-wax) process for which the Ife kingdom is now well known. Ife had great political and cultural influence over the Edo kingdom of Benin to the southeast.

Although Benin City and Old Oyo (Katunga) became the seats of political kingdoms more important than Ife, the town remained the chief religious centre for the Yoruba. In return for the ida oranyan symbol of spiritual authority named after a historical ruler of Benin and Oyo and given to an alaafin of Oyo upon his coronation the alaafin had to promise not to attack Ife. When Alaafin Awole tried to raid Ife territory for slaves in 1793, it brought severe internal resistance and the series of wars that led to the collapse of the Oyo empire. Although Ife managed to avoid the attacks by the Muslim Fulani that struck other parts of Yorubaland, it was weakened in the 1820s through struggles for control of the internal slave trade with Owu, to the southwest. After an ooni of Ife allowed Yoruban Oyo refugees from the Ilorin Fulani conquest to build the walled town of Modakeke just outside Ife, he was poisoned. After Ife declared war (1882) against Ibadan, its forces were repulsed when they attacked Modakeke. Shortly afterward a combined army from Ibadan and Modakeke nearly destroyed Ife.

Compatible with Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm.

Mod Support:

Ynaemp (Giant, Greatest, LargestEarthCustom and Cordiform)
40sw4rm's "Old World"
English and french languages

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