 The Yoruba community in Porto-Novo today remains one of the two ethnicities aboriginal to the city.The city was originally called "Ajashe" by the Yorubas, and "Hogbonu" by the Gun.Although historically the original inhabitants of the area were Yoruba speaking, there seems to have been a wave of migration from the region of Allada further west in the 1600s, which brought Te-Agbalin (or Te Agdanlin) and his group to the region of Ajashein 1688.