Fort Metal Cross
| Pahi la | List of castles in Ghana  |
|---|---|
| Di pilli ni | 1683 |
| Zuliya wuhibu | Fort Metal Cross |
| Tiŋa | Ghana |
| Din be shɛli polona | Dixcove |
| Tiŋgbaŋ yaɣili calinli | 4°47′36″N 1°56′42″W |
| Ŋun su li n-nyɛ | Kingdom of England |
| Heritage designation | Ghana’s material cultural heritage, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| World Heritage soli | (vi) |
| Ghana bɔba yuya URL | https://sites.google.com/site/ghanaplacenames/places-in-perspective/castles-forts#h.6j6pyldinkg |
Fort Metal Cross, bɛ ni daa na booni shɛli Fort Dixcove, nyɛla linjimanima ni daa mɛ shɛli ka di be tiŋ'shɛli din nyɛ zahim gbahibu sheei ka bɛ booni li Infuma ka di be Dixcove, Western Region, Ghana.[1]Pirilmla di ni mali Atlantic slave trade taarihi maa ni di yuli zaŋti European-African daabiligu maa, "Fort" daa nyɛla bɛ ni zaŋ shɛli pahi Forts and Castles of Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions din be World Heritage Site ni yuuni 1979.[2]
Taarihi
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Brandenburg-Prussia daa pilila Fort Groß Friedrichsburg mɛbu kamani 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west Dixcove yuuni 1683, (saha ŋɔ din pa nyɛ Princes Town) zaŋti Brandenburger Gold Coast amaa di daa bi naai hali zaŋ ni yuuni 1690s.[3]
Saha ŋɔ
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]"Fort" maa nyɛla Police Station mini Postal station.[1] Di daa nyɛla English bilichini nima ni daa haai shɛli tiʒingamazuɣu nima, Robert Fidler, mini o daŋ, ka nyɛ Dolodolo nim ni laɣindi shɛli.[4]
Anfooninima
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Prints and drawings
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Map of fort, 1746
Drawing from 1806 by George Webster
A painting by Edith Cheeseman from the 1920s, later published as a postcard. It depicts Fort Metal Cross as well as Alatakron, the village at the base of the fort which was inhabited by ancestors of migrants from Lagos, who worked as tradespeople maintaining the fort.
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Photographs
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Exterior photograph of Fort Metal Cross, Dixcove, Western Region, Ghana. It is composed of two images stitched together taken from just outside
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Kundivihira
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- 1 2 Fort Metal Cross, Dixcove (1692) (en-US).
- ↑ Journals, IU Press (2015-02-20). Transition 114: Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora (in English). Indiana University Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780253018588.
- ↑ Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions.
- ↑ Roberts (2014). "Castles". Transition (114): 88. DOI:10.2979/transition.114.88.
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