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Ne­derlandse Goudkust
Dutch Gold Coast
Dutch colony
1598–1871 Flag of the Gold Coast.svg

Flag of Dutch Guinea

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Location of Dutch Guinea
Location of Dutch forts in the Dutch Goldcost (1700)
Capital Fort Elmina
Language(s) Dutch
Political structure Colony
History
 - Established 1598
 - Disestablished February 21, 1871

The Dutch Gold Coast, or Dutch Guinea, was a portion of coastal West Africa that was gradually colonized by the Dutch beginning in 1598. On February 21, 1871, the British purchased all Dutch Gold Coast Settlements and were incorporated into its Gold Coast colony.

Dutch Gold Coast capitals were Fort Nassau and then Fort Elmina.

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[edit] Dutch Gold Coast settlements

 
Fort Elmina (top) and Fort Nassau (bottom), both capitals of the Dutch Gold Coast.

From west to east, the Dutch were in possession of the following forts:

  • Fort Apollonia at Beyin: 16..-16..; 1868-1872
  • Fort St. Anthony at Axim: 1642-1664; 1665-1872
  • Fort Hollandia at Pokesu (Princes Town, Ghana), formerly known as Fort Gross-Friedrichsburg: 1725-1872
  • Fort Metalen Kruis at Dixcove: 1868-1872
  • Fort Batenstein at Butre: 1656-1665; 1666-1872
  • Fort Dorothea at Akwidaa: 1687-1698; 1711-1712; 1732-1872
  • Fort Oranje at Sekondi: 1640-1872
  • Fort St. Sebastiaan at Shama: 1637-1664; 1664-1871
  • Fort Vredenburgh at Dutch Komenda: 1785-1872
  • Castle of St. George d'Elmina at Elmina: 1637-1872
  • Fort Coenraadsburg at St. Jago Hill, Elmina: 16..-1872
  • Fort Nassau at Mouri: 1611-1868
  • Carlsborg (Cape Coast Castle) at Cape Coast (also known as Cabo Cors or Cabo Corso): April 16, 1659-May 1659
  • Fort Amsterdam at Kormantin (Abandze): 1665-1868
  • Fort Lijdzaamheid (Patience) at Apam: 1697-1868
  • Fort Goede Hoop (Good Hope) at Senya Beraku: 1667/1705-1868
  • Fort Crêvecoeur (now: Ussher Fort) at Accra: 1649-1868

[edit] See also

Fort Coenraadsburg and Elmina Castle in Elmina, Dutch Gold Coast

[edit] References

  • WorldStatesmen- Ghana
  • Doortmont, Michel R.; Jinna Smit (2007). Sources for the mutual history of Ghana and the Netherlands. An annotated guide to the Dutch archives relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593-1960s. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15850-4. 

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