Editing Do-Aklin (section)

==Settled in Abomey==
According to oral tradition, the Aja were led to [[Allada]] by King [[Agassou|Agassu]] from the city of [[Tado]].  Agassu was the son of a Tado princess and a [[leopard]] (or in some versions a brave [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] hunter).<ref name=Halcrow>{{cite book|last=Halcrow|first=Elizabeth M.|title=Canes and Chains: A Study of Sugar and Slavery|year=1982|publisher=Heinemann Educational Publishing|location=Oxford|isbn=9780435982232|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MMVF71JsLpEC}}</ref>  When Agassu tried to take over Tado he was defeated and so instead moved with his followers to found the city of Allada.

Around 1600, three brothers (two in some versions) in the lineage of Agassu fought over the succession to the throne and it was decided that each would settle a new territory. The agreement was reached at [[Houégbo]] that Teagbanlin would found a state at what is now [[Porto-Novo]], another son would take control in Allada, and Do-Aklin would settle on the Abomey plateau to the north.<ref name=Monroe>{{cite journal|last=Monroe|first=J. Cameron|title=In the Belly of Dan: Space, History, and Power in Precolonial Dahomey|journal=Current Anthropology|year=2011|volume=52|issue=6|pages=769–798|doi=10.1086/662678|s2cid=142318205}}</ref>  It is said that Do-Aklin brought significant gifts for the local population and so was allowed to live amongst them, and the mixing of the local population with the Aja from Allada created the new ethnic group, the Fon.<ref name=Halcrow />

Do-Aklin's son (or grandson in some versions) [[Dakodonu]] became the founder of the palace and the kingdom of Dahomey around 1640 by defeating a local [[Tribal chief|chieftain]]. Anthropologist J. Cameron Monroe contends that the lineage connections to royalty at Allada is probably a later creation used by Dahomey legitimize its conquest of Allada (since according to the legend, the kings of Dahomey were also legitimate successors to the throne of Allada) and other aspects like its rivalry with Porto-Novo (brotherly rivalry, since according to the legend, the founders of Dahomey and Porto Novo were supposed to be brothers).<ref name=Monroe />