Guinea Coast

E488522

coastal region historical region

The Guinea Coast is a historical region along West Africa’s Atlantic shoreline that was a major hub for European trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, from the early modern period onward.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Upper Guinea Coast	4
Atlantic coast of West Africa	2
Guinea Coast canonical	2
Guinea coast	2
Upper Guinea coast	2
West African coast	2
Atlantic coast of Africa	1
Maritime Guinea	1
Pepper Coast	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	coastal region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
associatedWith	Atlantic World economy NERFINISHED ⓘ European colonial expansion NERFINISHED ⓘ triangular trade ⓘ
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
colonialInterestOf	Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ England NERFINISHED ⓘ France NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ
economicRole	major hub in Atlantic trade networks ⓘ source region for enslaved labor in the Americas ⓘ
geographicalExtent	southern part of West African coast ⓘ stretch of coast between Upper Guinea and Lower Guinea in some usages ⓘ
hasLanguageContext	term used primarily in European languages ⓘ
historicallyInhabitedBy	various West African ethnic groups ⓘ
historicalPeriod	early modern period ⓘ
historicalSignificance	central to development of Atlantic capitalism ⓘ key area in European-African commercial relations ⓘ
impact	demographic disruption in West Africa ⓘ growth of port towns along the West African coast ⓘ
knownFor	European maritime trade ⓘ trade in enslaved Africans ⓘ trade in gold ⓘ trade in ivory ⓘ trade in spices ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ
locatedIn	West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOn	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
overlapsWith	Gold Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Grain Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Pepper Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ Slave Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Atlantic coast of Africa ⓘ
regionType	maritime trade zone ⓘ
relatedConcept	Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED ⓘ European forts and trading posts in West Africa ⓘ coastal polities of West Africa ⓘ
terminologyUsedBy	European traders ⓘ
terminologyUsedIn	early modern European cartography ⓘ
timePeriod	from the 15th century onward ⓘ

Referenced by (17)

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

Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa → tradingRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

Limba → culturalRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Coast

Pepel → culturalRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Coast

Casamance Creole → linguisticArea → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Coast

Treaty of Alcáçovas → confirmedControlOf → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guinea coast

Grebo masks → region → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea coast

French Guinea → geographicalRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guinea coast

Susu → historicalRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea coast

Upper Guinea → bordersRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maritime Guinea

South Atlantic trade routes → hasMajorPortRegion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: West African coast

Atlantic languages → geographicDistribution → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Atlantic coast of West Africa

Ekpe society → associatedWith → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Atlantic coast of West Africa

West African Pidgin English → geographicScope → Guinea Coast ⓘ

MRU → subregion → Guinea Coast ⓘ

subject surface form: Mano River Union

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Coast

Slave Coast → borderedBy → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pepper Coast

Cap Vert (Cape Verde headland) → isPartOf → Guinea Coast ⓘ

subject surface form: Cap Vert

this entity surface form: Atlantic coast of Africa

Alvise Cadamosto → explored → Guinea Coast ⓘ

this entity surface form: West African coast