Dutch Gold Coast
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The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea, was a portion of contemporary Ghana known as the Gold Coast, that from 1612 was gradually colonised by the Du
Painting by Johannes Vingboons of both Fort St. George at Elmina and Fort Nassau at Moree
Elmina Castle in the Blaeu-van der Hem Atlas (1660s)
The first page of the Treaty of Butre, signed on 17 August 1656
Portrait of Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels
Swedish Gold Coast
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The Swedish Gold Coast was a Swedish colony founded in 1650 by the Swedish Africa Company and Hendrik Carloff on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana in Africa. Under Swedish control for eleven yea
Dutch Gold Coast
…company, this time for the Danish Africa Company, which he founded himself with Isaac Coymans and Nicolaes Pancras, also former WIC employees. Whereas Swedish presence on the Gold Coast turned out to be only temporary, British and Danish settlement in the area proved to be permanent. From 1694 until 1700, the WIC fought the Komenda…
Fort Carolusborg, built on the initiative of Carloff