Hulagan

Hulagan, or Great Hula, was known to European traders as Grand Popo. It lay among the lagoons and waterways of the coast, and the Hula people regarded it as a common ancestral home. Hula settlements extended eastwards along the shore, including Glēxwé in the kingdom of Hueda. At Hulagan itself, a ruler based on an island in the lagoon was remembered as the “master of the lagoon”. Fishing and the coastal traffic sustained communities whose history was closely bound to the water.