Anloga

Anloga
Aŋlɔga
Town
Anloga

Location in Ghana

Coordinates: 5°47′31″N 0°54′01″E / 5.79194°N 0.90028°ECoordinates: 5°47′31″N 0°54′01″E / 5.79194°N 0.90028°E
Country Ghana
Region Volta Region
District Keta Municipal District
Elevation 3 m (21 ft)
Population (2012)
 • Total 35,933[1]
  Ranked 47th in Ghana
Time zone GMT
 • Summer (DST) GMT (UTC)

Anloga[2] (Angloga[3] or Awunaga[4]) is a town in Keta District of the Volta Region in southeast Ghana. It lies east of the Volta River and just south of the Keta Lagoon.[5] Anloga is the forty-seventh most populous in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 35,933 people.[1]

History

Anloga became the traditional and ritual capital of the Anlo Ewe in the seventeenth century after they migrated to the Keta Lagoon area from Notsie in Togo.[6]

Following the Anlo-Danish War, the Dane built Fort Prinzenstein at Keta in 1784. However their efforts to exert any power beyond the range of the guns located in the fort proved to be ineffective. In June 1790 a Danish official was killed in Keta. Lacking any effective military forces the Danes hired the Anloga to punish the Keta. Initially the Anloga and Keta agreed to stage a battle after which the Anloga would burn a few Keta houses and then share the money provided by the Danes. But the mock fight somehow turned into a real battle, leaving a legacy of enmity between Anloga and Keta. This substantially weakened the Anlo people.[6] In 1850 Fort Prinzenstein was sold to the British, however it took them another twenty five years to integrate towns like Anloga into their colony which they called the Gold Coast colony.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "World Gazetteer online". World-gazetteer.com.
  2. ↑ Anloga (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. ↑ "Towns in Keta Municipal District" Ghana Districts
  4. ↑ Awunaga (Variant) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  5. ↑ Touring Ghana - Volta Region. touringghana.com.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nukunya, G. K. (1999). Kinship & marriage among the Anlo Ewe ([Nachdr.], pbk. ed. ed.). London: Athlone Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780485196375.
  7. ↑ Amenumey, D. E. K. (1968) "The Extension of British Rule to Anlo (South-East Ghana)" The Journal of African History 9(1): pp. 997–117; JSTOR copy

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