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By the late 19th century, the British, through conquest or purchase, occupied most of the forts along the coast. Two major factors laid the foundations of British rule and the eventual establishment of a colony on the Gold Coast: British reaction to the Asante wars and the resulting instability and disruption of trade, and Britain's increasing preoccupation with the suppression and elimination ...
In 1957, the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Protectorate and the British Togoland Trust Territory, became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations called Ghana. The Governor-General of Ghana served as the representative of the Queen of Ghana, whose formal title in ...
Detailed map of the border between the Dutch and British possessions. Whereas the Dutch forts on the Gold Coast were a colonial backwater in the 19th century, the British forts were slowly developed into a full colony, especially after Britain took over the Danish Gold Coast in 1850. The presence of Dutch forts in an area that became ...
Brandenburger Gold Coast and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721) British Gold Coast (English, 1821–1957) Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions: [2] the Gold Coast Crown Colony;
Establishments in Gold Coast (British colony) by year (40 C) Expatriates in Gold Coast (British colony) (2 C, 1 P) P. Gold Coast (British colony) people (6 C, 51 P) T.
Pages in category "Governors of the Gold Coast (British colony)" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first town planning on the Gold Coast began with the 1953 South Coast Planning Scheme. It featured height controls that restricted development towards strategic nodes. [ 26 ] By the 1960s the Gold Coast's infrastructure had grown considerably, and the local building industry was able to support the development of high-rise holiday ...
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.