Brandenburger Gold Coast

Brandenburger Gold Coast Settlements
1682–1721
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Location of Groß-Friedrichsburg within Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana, marked by the black dot and flag.
Inside Groß-Friedrichsburg. View in February 1884.
Status	Brandenburger colony (1682–1701) Prussian colony (1701–1721)
Capital	Groß Friedrichsburg
Common languages	German, Akan
Religion	Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Akan religion
Elector of Brandenburg, later King of Prussia
• 1640–1688 (Founded colony in 1682)	Frederick William
• 1688–1713	Frederick I
• 1713–1740 (Sold colony to Dutch in 1721)	Frederick William I
History
• Foundation of Brandenburg African Company	May 1682
• Renamed Prussian Gold Coast Settlements	15 January 1701
• Sold to Netherlands	1721
Succeeded by Dutch Gold Coast
Today part of	Ghana

Gold Coast
Bonos (Bono state) Fantes (Mankessim Kingdom) Ashantis (Ashanti Empire) Dagombas (Kingdom of Dagbon) Danes (Danish Gold Coast) Dutch (Dutch Gold Coast) English-British (British Gold Coast) Ewes (British Togoland) Germans (Brandenburger Gold Coast, Prussian Gold Coast) Portuguese (Portuguese Gold Coast) Swedes (Swedish Gold Coast) Gold Coastians–Ghanaians (Ghana)
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The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a part of the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1701, after which it became a Prussian colony from 1701 to 1721. In 1721 King Frederick William I of Prussia sold it for 7,200 ducats and 12 slaves to the Dutch West India Company.