Portuguese Gold Coast

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The Portuguese Gold Coast was a Portuguese colony on the West African Gold Coast (present day Ghana) on the Gulf of Guinea.

[edit] History

The Portuguese established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from 21 January 1482:

Fort São Jorge da Mina de Ouro, modern Elmina: 21 January 1482-28/9 August 1637; this became the capital
Fort de Santo Antonio de Axim, modern Axim: 1486-February 1642
Fort São Francisco Xavier, modern Osu: 1640-42
Fort São Sebastião, modern Shama: 1526-1637.

On 29 August 1637 the Dutch occupied São Jorge da Mina. On 9 January 1642 the whole colony was ceded to the Dutch, who made it part of their Dutch Gold Coast colony.

[edit] Captains-major

The Portuguese governors, going by this modest, military style, were:

21 January 1482 - 1484 Diogo de Azambuja
c.1486 Álvaro Vaz Pestano
c.1487 João Fogaça
c.1493 Lopo Soares de Albergaria
c.1502 - c.1504 Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco
c.1504 - 1504 Antonio de Miranda de Azevedo
1504 - 1505 Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
1505 - 15.. Martinho da Silva
15.. - c.1508 ....
c.1508 - 1509 Bobadilha
1509 - c.1510 Mabuel de Góis
c.1510 - 1513 Afonso Caldeira
1513 - c.1517 ....
c.1517 - 1519 Fernão Lopes Correia
1519 - 1522 Duarte Pacheco Pereira
1522 - 1524 Afonso de Albuquerque
1524 - 1525 João de Barros
1525 - 1529 ....
1529 - 15.. Estêvão da Gama
1536 - 1539 Manuel de Albuquerque
1539 - 1541 Antonio de Miranda
1541 - 154. Lopo de Sousa Coutinho (1st time)
154. - 1545 ....
1545 - 154. Diogo Soares de Albergaria (1st time)
1548 - 1550 Lopo de Sousa Coutinho (2nd time)
1550 - 1552 Diogo Soares de Albergaria (2nd time)
1552 - c.1555 Rui de Melo
c.1555 - c.1557 ....
c.1557 - 15.. Afonso Gonçalves Botofago
15.. - 1562 Rui Gomes de Azevedo
1562 - 15.. Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo
15.. - 1564 ....
1564 - 15.. Martím Afonso
15.. - 1570 ....
1570 - 157. António da Sá
157. - c.1574 ....
c.1574 - c.15.. Mendio da Mota
15.. - c.1579 ....
c.1579 - 15.. Vasco Fernandes Pimentel
15.. - 1584 João Rodrigues Peçanha
1584 - 15.. Bernardinho Ribeiro Pacheco
15.. - 1586 ....
1586 - c.1595 João Róis Coutinho
c.1595 - c.1596 Duarte Lôbo da Gama
c.1596 - 1608 Cristóvão da Gama
1608 - 1613 Duarte de Lima
1613 - c.1615 Pedro da Silva
c.1615 - 1616 ....
1616 - 1624 Manuel da Cunha e Teive
1624 - c.1625 Francisco de Souto-Maior
c.1625 - 162. ....
162. - 162. Luís Tomé de Castro
162. - 1629 João da Sera de Morais
1629 - c.1632 ....
c.1632 - 1634 Pedro de Mascarenhas
1634 - 9 January 1642 António da Rocha Magalhães

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Portuguese colonial empire
Former colonies
Africa & nearby Islands: Aguz/Souira Guedima, Morocco (1506-1525) \| Alcacer Ceguer/El Qsar es Seghir (1458-1550) \| Angola Portuguese West Africa (1575-1975) & Cabinda (Portuguese Congo) (1885-1975) \| Arguin Island (1455 - 1633)\| Arzila/Asilah (1417-1550, 1577-1589) \| Azamor/Azemmour, Morocco (1513-1541) \| Cape Verde (1642-1975) \| Ceuta (1415-1640) \| Fernando Poo and Annobon (1474-1778) \| Mazagan/El Jadida, Morocco (1506-1769) \| Moçambique (Portuguese East Africa) (1501-1975) \| Mombassa (1593-1698,1728-1729) \| Portuguese Gold Coast (1482-1642) \| Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) (1879-1974) ( Bissau (1687-1974) & Cacheu (1588-1974)) \| São João Baptista de Ajudá, Benin (1680-1961) \| São Tomé and Príncipe (1470-1975) \| Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué/Agadir, Morocco (1505-1541) \| Safim/Safi, Morocco (1488-1541) \| Tangier (1471-1662) \| Zanzibar (1503-1698) The Americas: later French Guiana (1809-1817) \| Brazil (1500-1822) \| Nova Colônia do Sacramento, Uruguay (1680-1777) \| Asia: Ceylon (1518-1658) \| Portuguese India ((Goa) (1510-1961)) \| Hormuz (1515-1622) \| Macao (1553-1999) \| Malacca (1511-1641) \| Moluccas (1512-1621) \| Muscat (1515-1650) \| Portuguese Timor (East Timor) (1642-1975) \| Socotra (1506-1511) \| Formosa \|
Present colonies (only Atlantic Ocean)
Açores Azores (1427-) \| Madeira (1419-)