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Brandenburgisch-Africanische Compagnie
Prussian colony located in modern Ghana, 1683–1721
The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a colony of Brandenburg-Prussia, later the Kingdom of Prussia, on the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1701, after which it became a Prussian colony from 1701 to 1721.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a colony of Brandenburg-Prussia, later the Kingdom of Prussia, on the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1701, after which it became a Prussian colony from 1701 to 1721. In 1721, King Frederick William I of Prussia sold it for 7,200 ducats and 12 slaves to the Dutch West India Company.2
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In May 1682, the German colonization of Africa began when the newly founded Brandenburg African Company (BAC, in German Brandenburgisch-Afrikanische Compagnie), a company that administered the colony, which had been granted a charter by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (core of the later Kingdom of Prussia), established a small West African colony consisting of two Gold Coast settlements on the Gulf of Guinea, around Cape Three Points in present Ghana:
Groß Friedrichsburg, also called Hollandia, now Pokesu: (1682–1717), which became the capital
Fort Dorothea, also called Accada, now Akwida: (April 1684 – 1687, 1698–1711, April 1712 – 1717), which from 1687 to 1698 and 1711–April 1712 the Dutch occupied
Governors during the Brandenburger era
May 1682 – 1683 – Philip Peterson Blonck
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1683–1684 – Nathaniel Dillinger
1684–1686 – Karl Konstantin von Schnitter
1686–1691 – Johann Niemann
From Wikipedia’s article on Brandenburg African Company, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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