Lagos State

===Early history===
Before the [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] name of Lagos had been adopted, Lagos' initial name was Eko which referred mainly to the [[Island]]. The first to settle in Eko were the [[Awori tribe|Awori]]s in the 15th century and the [[Edo people|Bini]]s in the 16th century. The [[Awori tribe|Awori]]s were conquered by the [[Benin Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwc5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA15|title=The Yoruba Today |author=Jeremy Seymour Eades|publisher=Cambridge University Press (Changing Culture Series)|page=15|year= 1980|isbn=9780521226561}}</ref> The Awori hunters and fishermen had originally come from [[Ife|Ile-Ife]] to the coast.<ref name="Lagos State, Nigeria">{{cite web|url=http://www.ngex.com/nigeria/places/states/lagos.htm |title=Lagos State, Nigeria |access-date=2014-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/pagelinks.php?p=8|title=History of Lagos State|access-date=2014-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209151402/http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/pagelinks.php?p=8|archive-date=9 February 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

It was in 1760 that the name Lagos was adopted by the Portuguese. Naming it after a city in Southern Portugal which was used as port for [[History of slavery|slave trade]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The transatlantic slave trade |url=https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/transatlantic-slave-trade |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=National Museums Liverpool}}</ref> In 1861, Oba Docemo was the one who signed the treaty making Lagos a [[British Overseas Territories|British colony]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-06 |title=Lagos, Nigeria (ca. 1350- ) • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/places-global-african-history/lagos-nigeria-c-1350/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Chair market-Badagry-1910.jpg|thumb|Chair market in [[Badagry]], 1910]]