Savè

Savè, or Sabe, was the centre of a Yoruba-speaking kingdom west of Oyo. Its ruler bore the title Onisabe, and royal tradition traced the first king to Oduduwa of Ile-Ife. Sabe's language and political traditions also show close connections with Oyo, while the kingdom developed its own place among the states of the western Yoruba frontier. By the late eighteenth century it was an independent kingdom in a region influenced by both Oyo and Dahomey.