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Encyclopedia > Danish Gold Coast

The Danish Gold Coast was a part of the Gold Coast (roughly present-day Ghana), which is on the West African Gulf of Guinea (hence the territory is sometimes called Danish Guinea), which was colonized by the Danes, first by the Danish West India Company (a chartered company), later as a crown colony. Gold Coast is a popular name for various areas and cities around the world which are located along the coast of an ocean or some other significant body of water, and often have many wealthy residential areas. ...  Western Africa (UN subregion)  Maghreb West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ... The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. ... The Danish West Indies (DWI, Dansk Vest Indien) are a former colony of Denmark in the Caribbean, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. ... The arms of the British South Africa Company A chartered company is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration and colonisation. ...


History

From 1658 several Danish settlements were established on the eastern Gold Coast: Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by...

  • Fort Friedensborg (Ningo: 1734-March 1850)
  • Fort Christiansborg (Accra/Osu: 1658-April 1659,1661-Dec 1680, February 1683-1693,1694-1850)
  • Fort Augustaborg (Tshe: 1787-March 1850)
  • Fort Prinzenstein (Keta: 1780-12 March 1850)
  • Fort Konigenstein (Ada: 1784-March 1850)
  • Carlsborg (Cape Castle: February 1658-16 April 1659, 22 April 1663 - 3 May 1664)
  • Cong (Cong Height: 1659-24 April 1661)
  • Fort Fredriksborg (Amanful or Amanfro: 1659-16 April 1685)

On April 20, 1663, the Danish seizure of Fort Christiansborg and Carlsborg (Cape Castle) completed the annexation of the Swedish Gold Coast settlements. 1674 - 1755 the settlements were administered by the Danish West India-Guinea Company. December 1680 - 29 August 1682 the Portuguese occupy Fort Christiansborg. Accra, population 1,970,400 (2005), is the capital of Ghana. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... // Events Prix de Rome scholarship established for students of the arts. ...


In 1750 it was made a Danish crown colony. 1782 - 1785 it was under British occupation. On 30 March 1850 all Danish Gold Coast Settlements were sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast. A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ... The Republic of Ghana is a nation of Africa, specifically West Africa within Côte dIvoire to the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo to the east, and borders the Gulf of Guinea to its south. ...

  • The title of its chief colonial administrator was Opperhoved (singular; sometimes rendered in English as Station Chief) since 1658, only in 1766 upgraded to Governor.

For the incumbents, see Colonial Heads of Danish Gold Coast Colonial Heads of the Danish Gold Coast Settlements Established on the eastern Gold Coast (present-day Ghana): Fort Friedensborg (Ningo), Fort Christiansborg, Fort Augustaborg (Tshi), Fort Prinzenstein (Keta), Fort Konigenstein (Ada). ...


Sources and references

Danish overseas colonies and territories
Former Danish colonies
Danish Gold Coast (Danish Guinea) | Danish India (capital Dansborg at Tranquebar, Balasore in Orissa, Frederiksnagore at Serampore in Bengal, Dannemarksnagore at Gondalpara, Calicut, Oddeway Torre on Malabar coast; annex Frederiksøerne: the Nicobar islands) | Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)
See also: Danish East India Company | Danish West India Company
Current overseas territories of Denmark: | Faroe Islands | Greenland

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GOLD COAST - LoveToKnow Article on GOLD COAST (6900 words)
Physical features.Though the lagoons common to the West African coast are found both at the western and eastern extremities of the colony (Assini in the west and Kwitta in the east) the greater part of the coast-line is of a different character.
At this period, however, the home government, disgusted with the Gold Coast by reason of the perpetual disturbances in the protectorate and the trouble it occasioned, determined to abandon the settlements, and sent instructions for the forts to be destroyed and the Europeans brought home.
The purchase of the Danish Pu ase forts in 1850, and of the Dutch forts and territory in 1871, led to the consolidation of the British power along the coast; and the Ashanti war of 187374 resulted in the extension of the area of British influence.
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