Fort St. Anthony

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Fort St. Anthony was a European-built coastal stronghold on the former Gold Coast (in present-day Ghana) that played a role in West African trade and colonial expansion.

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Label Occurrences
Fort St. Anthony canonical 2
Fort Good Hope 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf European-built coastal fort
historical site
trading post
architecturalStyle European coastal fortification
builder Portuguese Empire
continent Africa
country Ghana
era Age of Exploration
European colonial period in West Africa
heritageStatus historic coastal fort of Ghana
historicalRole military stronghold on the Gold Coast
node in European–African trade networks
locatedIn Axim
Ghana
Western Region (Ghana)
surface form: Western Region, Ghana

former Gold Coast
locatedOn Atlantic coast of West Africa
materialTraded gold
ivory
other West African commodities
partOf network of forts on the Gold Coast
primaryFunction coastal stronghold
trade fort
regionServed Gold Coast
West Africa
strategicImportance European colonial presence on the Gold Coast
control of coastal trade routes
usedFor West African trade
colonial expansion
protection of maritime trade routes

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gold Coast hasFort Fort St. Anthony
Ghana Museums and Monuments Board supervises Fort St. Anthony
this entity surface form: Fort Good Hope