Editing Gbe languages (section)

===Before 1600===
[[Ketu (Benin)|Ketu]], settlement in present-day Benin Republic (formerly known as Dahomey), might be an appropriate starting point for a brief history of the Gbe-speaking peoples. Ewe traditions refer to Ketu as ''[[Amedzofe (history)|Amedzofe]]'' ("origin of humanity") or ''Mawufe'' ("home of the Supreme Being"). It is believed that the inhabitants of Ketu were pressed westward by a series of wars between the tenth and the thirteenth century. In Ketu, the ancestors of the Gbe-speaking peoples separated themselves from other refugees and began to establish their own identity.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Attacks between the thirteenth and the fifteenth century drove a large section of the group still further westward. They settled in the ancient kingdom of [[Tado (state)|Tado]] (also Stado or Stádó) on the Mono river (in present-day [[Togo]]). The Tado kingdom was an important state in [[West Africa]] up to the late fifteenth century.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In the course of the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the [[Notsé|Notsie]] (or Notsé, Notsye, Wancé) kingdom was established by emigrants from the Tado kingdom; Notsie would later (around 1500) become the home of another group of migrants from Tado, the [[Ewe people]]. Around 1550, emigrants from Tado established the [[Allada]] (or Alada) kingdom, which became the center of the [[Fon people]]. Tado is also the origin of the [[Aja people]]; in fact, the name Aja-Tado (Adja-Tado) is frequently used to refer to their language.
Aja is considered the mother tribe by the rest of Gbe speaking people as many of the tribes trace their migration routes through Aja Tado(formerly known as Azame).{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Other peoples that speak Gbe languages today are the [[Gen people]] (Mina, Ge) around [[Anexo]], who are probably of Ga and [[Fante people|Fante]] origin, and the [[Phla–Pherá languages|Phla and Pherá]] peoples, some of whom consist of the traditional inhabitants of the area intermingled with early migrants from Tado.<ref>Capo 1991:10; see also the section on linguistic diversity in [[Phla–Pherá languages#Linguistic diversity|Phla–Pherá languages]].</ref>