Fort Amsterdam

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Fort Amsterdam is a historic European-built coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that played a key role in the trans-Atlantic trade era.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Fort Amsterdam canonical 4
Fort Amsterdam, Abandze 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf European-built fort
coastal fortress
historic site
associatedWith history of slavery in West Africa
trans-Atlantic trade era
builderNationality Dutch
builtBy Dutch West India Company
capturedBy English forces
capturedFrom Dutch West India Company
capturedYear 1665
constructionEnd 1645
constructionStart 1638
continent Africa
controlledBy British Empire
Dutch Republic
England
country Ghana
countryDuringConstruction Dutch Gold Coast
hasCondition ruin
hasPart bastions
chapel
courtyard
residential quarters
storerooms
underground dungeons
heritageCriteria UNESCO cultural criteria (iv)
surface form: UNESCO criterion (iv)

UNESCO criterion (vi)
heritageDesignation Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
surface form: Fortresses and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions

UNESCO World Heritage Site
heritageDesignationDate 1979
locatedIn Central Region, Ghana
Ghana
village of Abandze
material brick
stone
namedAfter Amsterdam
nearbySettlement Saltpond
onBodyOfWater Atlantic Ocean
openToPublic true
originalName Fort Cormantin
overlooks Gulf of Guinea
partOf Dutch Gold Coast
surface form: European forts on the Gold Coast
region Gold Coast
tourismType heritage tourism
usedFor gold trade
military defense
trans-Atlantic slave trade

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Referenced by (5)

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

Gold Coast hasFort Fort Amsterdam
Dutch Gold Coast majorFort Fort Amsterdam
Central Region, Ghana contains Fort Amsterdam
this entity surface form: Fort Amsterdam, Abandze