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Fort Orange (Ghana)
🇬🇭 Ghana · siglo XVII
Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) is a fort located in Sekondi, Western Region, Ghana. Built by the Dutch in 1642, it was originally established as a trading lodge. The site was enlarged into a full fort in 1690 to support the growing European trade and to provide protection against local conflicts and rival European powers.
It is situated adjacent to the English-built Fort Sekondi, which was constructed in 1682. The fort was transferred to British control in 1872 along with the rest of the Dutch Gold Coast holdings, following the Anglo-Dutch treaty of that year.
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Fort Orange (Ghana) ranks #2872 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #19 of the 31 mapped in Ghana. Fundado en 1690, más antiguo que el 26% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 399 atlas entries founded in the siglo XVII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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