History
Techiman is the legendary birthplace of all of the Akan peoples. The Fante people, according to their oral tradition, migrated from Techiman to found the coastal Mankessim Kingdom in 1252.
After Bono Manso, capital of the Bono state, was taken by the Ashanti Empire in 1723, then the Bono-Techiman state was founded in 1740 under Ashanti sovereignty.
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