Dutch Gold Coast

Dutch Gold Coast bee Dutch Guinea, din be gbana ni Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea (Dutch: Nederlandse Bezittingen ter Kuste van Guinea) daa nyɛla Ghana yaɣ'shɛli Dutch nim ni daa kuli mɔri ni bɛ deei, yuuni 1612 piligu. Dutch daa pilila daabiligu ni maa ni niŋbu yuuni 1598, ka daa zaŋ bɛ maŋa pahi Portuguese nim baa daa pun niŋdi daabiligu ni 1400s zuɣu. Di ni daa kuli chana, Dutch Gold Coast daa niŋ Dutch biɛhigu sheei din niŋ talahi n zaŋti West Africa di ni daa niŋ ka Fort Elmina daa mɛ Portuguese nuuni yuuni 1637, amaa ka bɛ daa cheli labi dini daa niŋ ka daba daabiligu che 19th century. Anashaara goli 6 April 1872, Dutch Gold Coast daa nyɛla ban saɣiti Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870–71, din daa tabi United Kingdom.

Taarihi

The Dutch settle on the Gold Coast

Portuguese n daa nyɛ tuuli Europe nim ban kpe Ghana. Zaŋ chaŋ yuuni 1471, bɛ daa paai luɣ'shɛli bƐ ni daa boli Gold Coast ka bɛ daliri nyɛla salima n daa be ni. Portuguese daabiligu yaa zaa daa jendila salima, wan'nyina ni naanzua ka di daa pahi yuuni 1482, Portuguese daa mɛ bɛ tuuli daabiligu niŋbu sheei "western coast" din pa nyɛ bɛ ni booni shɛli Ghana zuŋɔ ŋɔ.McLaughlin & Owusu-Ansah (1994), "Early European Contact and the Slave Trade".

Biɛhisi sheei

Main forts

 Place in Ghana Fort name Founded/Occupied Ceded Comments Moree  Fort Nassau  1598 (1612)  1868  The first Dutch trading post on the Gold Coast opened around 1598. In 1612, it was expanded to a fort. Capital of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1598 and 1637. Occupied between 1781 and 1785 by the British. Traded with the British in 1868. Butri  Fort Batenstein  1598 (1656)  1872 Second Dutch trading post on the Gold Coast. Expanded to Fort Batenstein in 1656. Site of the signing of the Treaty of Butre. Elmina Fort Elmina  1637 1872  Captured from the Portuguese in the Battle of Elmina (1637). Capital of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1637 and 1872. Elmina  Fort Coenraadsburg  1637 (1665) 1872 Captured from the Portuguese together with Fort Elmina. Originally a reinforced chapel on Saint Jago Hill from which Fort Elmina could easily be attacked. For this reason reinforced by the Dutch after the capture of Elmina. Extended to a full fort in 1665. Shama  Fort San Sebastian  1640  1872  Captured from the Portuguese in 1640. Axim  Fort Santo Antonio 1642 1872 Captured from the Portuguese. Occupied between 1664 and 1665 by the British. Site of the signing of the Treaty of Axim. Accra Fort Crèvecoeur  1642  1868  Situated near Fort Christiansborg (Danish), and Fort James (British). Occupied between 1781 and 1786 by the British. Traded with the British in 1868. Sekondi  Fort Orange  1642 (1690)  1872  Trading post established by the Dutch in 1642. Enlarged into a fort in 1690, and destroyed by the Ahanta in 1694. Restored afterwards. Takoradi  Fort Witsen  1665  1872  Originally built by the Swedes. Cormantin  Fort Amsterdam  1665  1868  First British fort (1631) on the Gold Coast, captured in 1665 by Engel de Ruyter. Occupied between 1781 and 1785 by the British. Traded with the British in 1868. Senya Beraku  Fort Goede Hoop  1667 1868  Occupied between 1781 and 1785 by the British, and occupied by the local Akim between 1811 and 1816. Traded with the British in 1868. Akwidaa Fort Dorothea  1687  1872 Formerly part of the Brandenburger Gold Coast. First occupied by the Dutch in 1687 and finally bought in 1721. Komenda  Fort Vredenburgh  1682 1872 A trading post was established by the Dutch near this site around 1600, but abandoned soon afterwards. The fort was built in 1682. In 1687, the English Fort Komenda was built nearby. Occupied between 1781 and 1785 by the British.  Apam  Fort Lijdzaamheid  1697 1868  Occupied between 1781 and 1785 by the British. Traded with the British in 1868.  Princess Town  Fort Hollandia 1724 1872 Formerly part of the Brandenburger Gold Coast, bought in 1721 by the Dutch. Up until 1724 occupied by the local Jan Conny. 

 Trade of forts with Britain 
Yuuni 1868, United Kingdom mini Netherlands gba daa niŋ daabiligu lala "fort: nim ŋɔ ni.Foreign & Commonwealth Office - Convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands for an Interchange of Territory on the Gold Coast of Africa 

 Place in Ghana Fort name Founded/Occupied Ceded Comment Beyin  Fort Willem III  1868 1872 Previously British Fort Apollonia. Dixcove  Fort Metalen Kruis  1868  1872  Previously British Fort Dixcove. Komenda  Fort Komenda  1868  1872 Previously British Fort Komenda. Sekondi  Fort Sekondi  1868  1872 Previously British Fort Sekondi.

Temporarily held forts

 Place in Ghana Fort name Founded/Occupied Ceded Comments Cape Coast  Cape Coast Castle  1637  1652   Anomabu  Fort William  1640  1652   Egya  Fort Egya 1647 1664  English trading post built in 1647, but conquered in the same year by the Dutch. Demolished in 1665 by the British after they had recaptured it in the year before. Ankobra Fort Ruychaver  1654  1659  Built together with Fort Elise Carthago on the Ankobra River. Attacked by the local population and abandoned. Ankobra  Fort Elize Carthago  1702 1706 (?) Dutch trading post between 1650 and 1702. Keta  Fort Singelenburgh  1734  1737  Destroyed by the Dutch in 1737 after it was attacked by the local population. The Danish built Fort Prinsensten near the abandoned fort in 1784. Sekondi  Fort Sekondi  1782 1785 Captured from the British in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. Given back, but regained in 1868 as part of a forts trade with the United Kingdom (see above).

Lihi pahi
Colonial Heads of Dutch Gold Coast
History of Ghana
Dutch Loango-Angola
 Ministry of the Colonies (Netherlands)

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External links

 WorldStatesmen - Ghana - Dutch Gold Coast
 Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana


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