Swedish Gold Coast
| Swedish Gold Coast | ||||||||||||
| Cabo Corso Svenska Guldkusten |
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| Swedish colony | ||||||||||||
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 Map of Sweden Overseas Territories and Territorial Entities
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 Historic map of the Gold Coast
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| Capital | Fort Christiansborg | |||||||||||
| Languages | Swedish | |||||||||||
| Political structure | Colony | |||||||||||
| King/Queen of Sweden | ||||||||||||
| • | 1632–1654 | Christina of Sweden | ||||||||||
| • | 1654–1660 | Charles X Gustav of Sweden | ||||||||||
| • | 1660–1697 | Charles XI of Sweden | ||||||||||
| • | 1650–1656 | Henrik Carloff | ||||||||||
| • | 1656–1658 | Johan Filip von Krusenstierna | ||||||||||
| • | 1659–1660 | Johan Filip von Krusenstierna | ||||||||||
| • | 1663 | Tönnies Voss | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Colonial period | |||||||||||
| • | Established | 1650 | ||||||||||
| • | Danish conquest | 1658 | ||||||||||
| • | Treaty of Copenhagen | 1660 | ||||||||||
| • | Fall | 1663 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Ghana
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The Swedish Gold Coast (Swedish: Svenska Guldkusten) was a Swedish colony founded in 1650 by Hendrik Carloff on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana in Africa. It lasted until April 1663 when the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by Denmark, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast.
The colony consisted of only a few forts and trading posts scattered around Cabo Corso (present-day Cape Coast) along the coast on the Gulf of Guinea in what later would become the British Gold Coast then Ghana.
The colony consisted of fortifications and trading posts (factories):
Each of the three Swedish administrators had a different gubernatorial title:
Following the foundation of the Swedish Africa Company (1649) by Louis de Geer an expedition under the command of Hendrik Carloff was sent to Africa in 1650. Carloff made a treaty with the Akan King of Futu (also Feta) on selling some areas of land. On 22 April 1650 the Swedish Gold Coast was founded and Carloff became its first administrator. In 1652 the foundations were laid of the fort Carlsborg
In 1656 Johan Filip von Krusenstierna (brother of the greatgrandfather of Adam Johann von Krusenstern) was appointed the new Governor. This enraged Carloff. He left Cabo Corso only to return on 27 January 1658 on the Danish Privateer Glückstadt. Fort Carlsborg was seized and made part of the Danish Gold Coast colony.
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