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Fort de Goede Hoop or Fort Good Hope was a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, established in 1667 near Senya Beraku. The Dutch had already had a lodge in Senya Beraku in the 1660s, but that was abandoned when the British built their fort at nearby Winneba. In 1704, the Dutch asked the Queen of Agona for permission to build a fort at Senya Beraku.
The Fort of Good Hope (Dutch: Ford de Goede Hoop) was the first military building to be erected in what is now Cape Town. It was built in 1652, and was in use until 1674 [ 1 ] when it was superseded by the Castle of Good Hope .
A map of the Gold Coast circa 1700. During the colonial period in Ghana, at the time known as the Gold Coast, roughly corresponding to the 15th through 19th centuries, European-style coastal forts and castles were built, mostly by the Portuguese, Dutch and British. [1]
Fort Crêvecoeur, Accra (1649–1782, 1785–1867/8) Fort Dorothea, Akwida (1687–1698, 1711–1712, 1732–1804) Fort Good Hope (Fort Goedehoop), Senya Beraku (1667/1705–1782, 1785–1868) Fort Hollandia (1725–1815, previously Gross-Friedrichsburg, part of the former Brandenburger Gold Coast settlements), sold to the Dutch by Prussia
Senya Beraku is a residential area in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region of Ghana. [1] Senya Beraku is the site of Fort Good Hope . Authority control databases
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