Danish Gold Coast
| Danish Gold Coast Danish Guinea |
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Danske Guldkyst Dansk Guinea |
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Denmark-Norway crown colony (1658–1814) Denmark territory (1814–1850) |
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| Capital | Osu (Christiansborg) (1658–1850) | |||||||||
| Languages |
Danish, German (official) Ga, Dangme, |
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| Political structure |
Denmark-Norway crown colony (1658–1814) Denmark territory (1814–1850) |
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| King of Denmark | ||||||||||
| • | 1658–1670 | Frederick III of Denmark (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1848–1863 | Frederick VII of Denmark (last) | ||||||||
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| • | 1658–1659 | Hendrik Carloff | ||||||||
| • | 1847–1850 | Rasmus Eric Schmidt | ||||||||
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| • | Denmark annexation from Sweden | 1658 | ||||||||
| • | Treaty of Copenhagen | 1660 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | March 30, 1850 | ||||||||
| Currency | Danish rigsdaler | |||||||||
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 Ghana
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The Danish Gold Coast (Danish: Danske Guldkyst or Dansk Guinea) denotes the colonies that Denmark-Norway controlled in Africa as a part of the Gold Coast (roughly present-day southeast Ghana), which is on the petroleum and natural gas rich Gulf of Guinea. It was colonized by the Dano-Norwegian fleet, first under indirect rule by the Danish West India Company (a chartered company), later as a crown colony of the kingdom of Denmark-Norway.
Following the Norwegian Declaration of Independence in 1814, Denmark's five Danish Gold Coast Territorial Settlements and forts of the Kingdom of Denmark were sold to the United Kingdom and were incorporated into the British Gold Coast in 1850.
On April 20, 1663, the Danish seizure of Fort Christiansborg and Carlsborg (Cape Castle) completed the annexation of the Swedish Gold Coast settlements. From 1674 to 1755 the settlements were administered by the Danish West India-Guinea Company. From December 1680 to 29 August 1682, the Portuguese occupied Fort Christiansborg.
In 1750 it was made a Danish crown colony. From 1782 to 1785 it was under British occupation. On 30 March 1850 all of Denmark's Danish Gold Coast Territorial Settlements and forts of the Kingdom of Denmark were sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast.
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