Ghana · 17th century
Fort Dorothea ranks #7,319 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #27 of the 35 mapped in Ghana. Founded 1684, it is older than 22% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 710 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Sekondi-Takoradi, 35 km away. See how Ghana compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Dorothea was a fortification on the headland south of present-day Akwidaa (formerly Arcada or Accada) in the western part of Ghana and belonged to the then Electoral Brandenburg colony of Groß Friedrichsburg.
Machine-translated from “Dorotheenschanze” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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