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The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
The Dutch West India Company captured Elmina in 1637; in subsequent centuries it was mostly used as a hub for the slave trade. The British attacked the city in 1782 , but it remained in Dutch hands until 1872, when the Dutch Gold Coast was sold to the British .
Ghana imports automobiles and buses from India and companies like Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland have a significant presence in the country. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Ghanaian exports to India consist of gold , cocoa and timber while Indian exports to Ghana comprise pharmaceuticals , agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, plastics, steel and cement .
The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood (University of Missouri Press, 1989) Gardner, James A. "The Business Career of Moses Austin in Missouri, 1798-1821." Missouri Historical Review (1956) 50#3 pp 235–47. Gitlin, Jay. The bourgeois frontier: French towns, French traders, and American expansion (Yale University Press, 2009)
The Ghana Empire (Arabic: غانا), also known as simply Ghana, [2] Ghanata, or Wagadu, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali. It is uncertain among historians when Ghana's ruling dynasty began.
1649 – Fort Crèvecœur built by the Dutch West India Company. 1661 – Fort Christiansborg built by the Dutch trader Henry Caerlof in Osu. [2] 1673 – Fort James built by the English. [2] 1680 – Akwamu in power in Ga territory. [1] 1807 – Slave trade abolished. [3] [4] 1850 – Dutch Fort Crèvecœur ceded to British control. [5]
The Political history of Ghana traces the evolution of governance in Ghana from pre-colonial times through the colonial era and into the post-independence period. Before European intervention, Ghana was a diverse region composed of multiple states and ethnic groups, each with distinct political structures.
Gold Coast Euro-Africans were a historical demographic based in coastal urban settlements in colonial Ghana, that largely arose from unions between European men and African women from the late 15th century – the decade between 1471 and 1482, until the mid-20th century, circa 1957, when Ghana attained its independence from the United Kingdom.