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Fort St. Jorge, Elmina.
Built by the Portuguese in 1482. First European fort on
the Gold Coast, it was improved before 1500.
Fort SAO JORGE da MINA (Elmina)
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Fort St. Jorge, Elmina |
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| Fort Nassau, Cape Coast. At
Mourie. A Dutch post in 1598. Dutch fort built 1612. |
Fort Nassau, from an old Dutch print,
XXVII century. |
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| Fort William, Anomabu. Built
by the Dutch in 1640. Restored in 1954. |
Fort William, Anomabu |
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| Fort St. Sebastian, Shama.
First built as a Dutch lodge 1526. |
Fort St. Sebastian, Shama |
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Fort Prinsenstein, Keta.
Danish post established in c. 1714.
Keta – Dutch Fort ‘Singelenburght’. Built (1734). Danish
Fort ‘Prinsenstein’ Built (1784). English (1850). At Present
A Prison. |
Fort Prinsenstein, Keta |
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| Kumasi
Fort – At Kumasi, The Garden City Of Ghana Built By
The British (1896 – 1900). At Present Used As Military Museum |
Kumasi Fort
– At Kumasi |
Ghana Tourist Board
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Building history: Albert
van Dantzig, Forts and Castles of Ghana (Accra: Sedco Publishing
Ltd 1980). A.W. Lawrence, Trade Castles and Forts of West
Africa (London: Jonathan Cape 1963), esp. pp. 333-336.
www.ambaccra.nl/pages/c_forts.html |
Copyright © 1998, Marco
Ramerini,
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