Oyo
Oyo (ôyô'), city (1991 est. pop. 226,700), SW Nigeria. It is primarily a farming town, producing tobacco, yams, and cassava. Traditional artisans make textiles and leather goods and carve utensils from shells of the calabash gourd. Oyo was founded c.1835 as the successor of Old Oyo (Katunga), the capital of the Yoruba empire of Oyo, which was destroyed in the Yoruba civil wars of the early 19th cent. Oyo is about 100 mi (161 km) S of Old Oyo. The city came under British rule in 1893.
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Oyo can refer to:
Places
- In Nigeria
- The Oyo Empire or Kingdom, a former West-African empire that covered parts of modern-day Nigeria and Benin
- Oyo State, a present-day state of Nigeria named after the Oyo Empire
- Oyo, Nigeria, a city in Oyo State founded in the 1830s as the capital of the Oyo Kingdom
- In the Republic of the Congo
- Oyo, Congo, a city in the Cuvette Region
Other uses
- Ottawa Y Olympians Swim Club (OYO), an amateur competitive swim club in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Oyo Boy Sotto (born 1984), Filipino actor
- Oyo (e-reader), e-book reader
- The name of an Angelique Kidjo's album
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