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
Fort Carolusborg, built on the initiative of Carloff
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
Swedish Gold Coast
…Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana in Africa. Under Swedish control for eleven years, it disappeared for good in April 1663 when it became part of the Dutch Gold Coast. Following the foundation of the Swedish Africa Company (1649) by Louis de Geer, an expedition under the command of Hendrik Carloff was sent to Africa…
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