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Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba

Living cultural landscape in north-eastern Togo (extending into Benin) shaped by the Batammariba people, who settled here in the 17th-18th centuries fleeing conflict and the slave trade, building distinctive two-storey mud tower-houses (takienta) whose form reflects their social structure.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1650 CE mainstream
  Batammariba people settle the region, migrating from the north to seek isolation and security (approximate) source
• 2004 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

10.3500° N, 1.0833° E

Sources

• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1140/

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