Gold Coast

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historical region

The Gold Coast was a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, corresponding largely to modern-day Ghana, that became a major center of European trade, particularly in enslaved Africans, gold, and other commodities.

Aliases (1)

Brandenburger Gold Coast ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical region →
annexedBy	United Kingdom →
becameBritishCrownColony	1874 →
borderedBy	Ivory Coast → Togo → Upper Volta region →
capitalDuringBritishRule	Cape Coast →
colonialPower	Brandenburg-Prussia → Denmark → Great Britain → Netherlands → Portugal → Sweden →
colonialStatus	British colony → trading colony →
correspondsTo	modern-day Ghana →
ethnicGroups	Akan peoples → Ewe → Ga-Adangbe →
firstEuropeanArrivalYear	c. 1471 →
firstEuropeanContact	Portuguese explorers →
hasFort	Cape Coast Castle → Elmina Castle → Fort Amsterdam → Fort Christiansborg → Fort James → Fort St. Anthony → Fort St. Jago → Fort St. Sebastian → Fort William →
hasPort	Accra → Cape Coast → Elmina →
independenceAsGhana	1957 →
knownFor	Atlantic triangular trade → European trade forts → gold trade → slave trade →
laterCapitalDuringBritishRule	Accra →
locatedIn	Gulf of Guinea → West Africa →
majorCommodity	enslaved Africans → gold → ivory → pepper →
partOf	Sub-Saharan Africa →
startDate	15th century →
successorState	Ghana →
unifiedWith	Ashanti → British Togoland → Northern Territories of the Gold Coast →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bight of Benin →	adjacentTo
Kwame Nkrumah →	citizenship
Kwame Nkrumah →	countryOfBirth
Crown colony →	example
Ghana →	formerColony
British West Africa →	includes
Trust Territory of Togoland under British administration →	integratedWith
Diogo de Azambuja →	placeOfActivity
British Gold Coast ("Brandenburger Gold Coast") →	precededBy
Trust Territory of Togoland under French administration →	sharesBorderWith
Royal African Company →	tradingRegion
Atlantic slave trade →	transportedFrom