This is a list of the trading post

Trading post

A trading post was a place or establishment in historic Northern America where the trading of goods took place. The preferred travel route to a trading post or between trading posts, was known as a trade route....

s and settlements of the Dutch West India Company

Dutch West India Company

Dutch West India Company was a chartered company of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx...

(active 1621-1791), including chronological details of possessions taken over from the Dutch state in 1621, and for the period after 1791 when the Dutch government took over responsibility again.

The list runs in geographical sequence from north to south along the West Africa

West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...

n coast and from north to south through the Americas

Americas

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.

Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

• Portudal
• Rufisque
  Rufisque
  Rufisque is a city in the Dakar region of western Senegal, at the base of the Cap-Vert Peninsula. It has a population of 179,797 . In the past it was an important port city in its own right, but is now a suburb of Dakar....
  
  
• Joal
• Gorée
  Gorée
  Île de Gorée Île de Gorée Île de Gorée (i.e. "Gorée Island"; is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. "commune of arrondissement") of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is a island located at sea from the main harbor of Dakar ....
  
  (Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
  : Goeree island' (1617 – 1663/24 October 1664-1677)

Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

 (Dutch Gold Coast

Dutch Gold Coast

The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea was a portion of coastal West Africa that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1598...

)

1611 – 1872

• Cape Apollonia (Benyin): Fort Apollonia (16.-1768 / 1868-1872) to the English.
• Abacqua (Duma
  Duma
  A Duma is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. The State Duma in the Russian Empire and Russian Federation corresponds to the lower house of the parliament. Simply it is a form of Russian governmental institution, that was formed during the reign of the...
  
   or Egwira): Fort Ruychaver (Jul./Aug. 1654 - 1659)
• Mouth of Ankobra: Fort Elise Carthago (1650)
• Axim
  Axim
  Axim is a town, district and kingdom on the coast of Ghana. It lies 64 kilometers west of the port city of Takoradi, south of the highway leading to the Côte d'Ivoire border, in the Western Region to the west of Cape Three Points....
  
  : Fort Santo Antonio (February 1642 – 1664 / 1665 – 1872)
• Pokesu or Princess Town
  Princess Town
  Princes Town is located 5 km east of Fort St. Antonio on Manfro Hill in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region of Ghana. It lies between Axim to the west and Takoradi to the east. The original name of this West African town was "Kpokezoe"...
  
   (old Dutch spelling: Poquesoe
  Dutch language
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  ): Fort Hollandia (formerly fort Gross Friedrichsburg) 1725 fort - 1814/1815 abandoned/1687* - 1698/1711 – 1712/1732 - 1804 abandoned
• Dixcove
  Dixcove
  Dixcove is a coastal town in the Western Region of Ghana, located approximately 35 km west of the regional capital of Takoradi.Dixcove is the site of Fort Metal Cross, an English-built fort which was completed in 1698, which dominates the fishing harbour and town from a bluff located on the...
  
  : Fort Metalen Kruis (1868 – 1872)
• Butri: Fort Batenstein (1656 - 1665 / 166..-1872)
• Takoradi: Fort Witsen
• British Sekondi: 1782 – 1785; 1868 – 1872.
• Dutch Sekondi: Fort Oranje, 1640 or 1670/75 – 1872.
• Shama
  Shama, Ghana
  Shama or Shema is a small fishery village in Ghana. The village lies about 20 km east of Sekondi-Takoradi, on the mouth of the Pra River. The village is home to Fort San Sebastian, in whose graveyard philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first African known to have attended a European university,...
  
  : Fort St. Sebastiaan 1637 - 1664 / 1664 – 1872.
• British Komenda
  Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District
  The Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District is a district of Ghana in the Central Region.-Sources:*...
  
  : Fort Komenda (1868 - 1872)
• Dutch Komenda
  Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District
  The Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District is a district of Ghana in the Central Region.-Sources:*...
  
  : Fort Vredenburgh (1688 fort – 1782 / 1785 – 1872)
• Elmina
  Elmina
  Elmina, is a town in the Central Region, situated on a south-facing bay on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Ghana, about 12 km west of Cape Coast...
  
  : Castle St. George d'Elmina, Fort Coenraadsburg on St. Jago Hill, Redoubt De Veer (1810/1811), Redoubt Naglas (1828), Redoubt Java (1828), Redoubt Schomarus (1828), Redoubt Batenstein (1828). (28/29 August 1637 – 6 April 1872)
• Cape Coast Castle
  Cape Coast Castle
  Cape Coast Castle is a fortification in Ghana built by Swedish traders. The first timber construction on the site was erected in 1653 for the Swedish Africa Company and named Carolusborg after King Charles X of Sweden. It was later rebuilt in stone....
  
  , Cabo Corço or Oguaa (Swedish name: Carolusborg or Carlsborg) (16 April 1659.- May 1659/ 22 April 1663. - 3 May 1664 **Cong (Cong Height): - 1659 abandoned / 1661 Danish Fort destroyed by the Dutch)
• Mouri: Fort Nassau (1624) (1598 or 1611 / 12 – 1664/1665 – 1782/1785 - 1867 by treaty to the English)
• Cormantin: Fort Amsterdam (1665 � 1721 / 1785 - 1867 by treaty to the English)
• Anomabu
  Anomabu
  Anomabu , is a town on the coast of Ghana, Africa.-European colonization:Anomabu became the focus of intense European trade rivalry in the 17th and 18th centuries, partly because of its easy access to a rich hinterland and partly because the local Anomabu were themselves powerful and astute traders...
  
  : (1640-1652)
• Egya: (1647 - ? / 1663 - 1664)
• Apam
  Apam
  Apam is a coastal town in the Central Region of Ghana, located approximately 45km east of the regional capital of Cape Coast.Apam is the site of Fort Lijdzaamheid, a Dutch-built fort which was completed in 1702, which dominates the fishing harbour and town from a rocky peninsula located on the...
  
  : Fort Leydsaemheyt or Lijdzaamheid (Patience) (1697/1698 � 1782/ 1785-1868)
• Senya Beraku: Fort Goede Hoop, (1667 or 1705/06 fort � 1782/1785 - 1867/68)
• Ussher Town (Accra
  Accra
  Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...
  
  ): Fort Cr�vecoeur (1649-1782/ 1786-1868)
• Kpone: (1697 - Apr. 1700 / 1706 - ?)
• Keta
  Keta
  Keta is a city in Volta Region, Ghana. It was an important trading post between the 14th and late 20th century via a port and fort built by the Dutch in 1784. Parts of the city were devastated by sea erosion between the 1960s and 1980s....
  
  : Fort Singelenburgh (? - 1737)
• Kumase: (1837-1842 / 1848-1853 / 1859-1869)

Benin

Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...

• Great Popo(1680 - ?)
• Ouidah
  Ouidah
  Ouidah , also Whydah or Juda, is a city on the Atlantic coast of Benin.The commune covers an area of 364 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 76,555 people.-History:...
  
   (1670s. or 1687 / 1702 - 1724 or 1726)
• Jaquim or Jakri (Godomey
  Godomey
  Godomey is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Abomey-Calavi. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the...
  
  ) Fort Zelandia (1726 � 1734)
• Offra(1675 - 1691)
• Appa or Ekp�(1732 - 1736)
• Savi
  Savi
  Savi was the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah prior to its capture by the forces of Dahomey in 1727.Prior to the conquest of the city it had a circumference of about four miles...
  
  
• Allada
  Allada
  Allada is a town, arrondissement, and commune located in the Atlantique Department of Benin.Allada was the capital of the most powerful king in Ajaland before it fell to the armies of Dahomey....
  
   or Ardra
  Ardra
  Ardra may refer to:* Ardra is the Goddess of good luck and fortune in Hindu mythology, and a nakshatra associated with the star Betelgeuse in Indian astronomy...
  
  

São Tomé

São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about apart and about , respectively, off...

18 October 1599. - 20 October 1599./3 October 1641-16 October 1641, nowadays São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about apart and about , respectively, off...

Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

26 August 1641.- 21/24 August 1648.,

• São Paulo de Luanda (Luanda
  Luanda
  Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center. It has a population of at least 5 million...
  
  ): Fort Aardenburgh (26 August 1641.- 21/24 August 1648.) to Portugal.
• São Filipe de Benguela (Benguela
  Benguela
  Benguela is a city in western Angola, south of Luanda, and capital of Benguela Province. It lies on a bay of the same name, in 12° 33’ S., 13° 25’ E...
  
  ): (Sept. 1641- 1648) to Portugal
• Pinda or Mpinda (Sonyo):-at the mouth of the Congo River (1648) to Portugal
• Ensandeira island:(at the mouth of the Kwanza river) Fort Mols (1645/6-1648) to Portugal
• Malemba (Cabinda
  Cabinda (province)
  Cabinda is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by many political organizations in the territory. The capital city is also called Cabinda. The province is divided into four municipalities - Belize, Buco Zau, Cabinda and Cacongo.Modern Cabinda is the result of a fusion...
  
  )

Caribbean

• St. Maarten
• Curaçao
  Curaçao
  Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
  
  
• St. Eustatius
• Saba
• Bonaire
• Aves Island
• Las Aves
  Las Aves Archipelago
  The Las Aves Archipelagois a pristine archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, and is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is located north of the Venezuelan states of Aragua and Carabobo, between the Dutch island Bonaire in the west, and the Los Roques Archipelago in the east, at . The prime...
  
  
• Tobago
  Tobago
  Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the southern Caribbean, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada. The island lies outside the hurricane belt...
  
  
• St. Croix
• Tortuga
• Aruba
  Aruba
  Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...
  
  
• Anguilla
  Anguilla
  Anguilla is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin...
  
  
• Tortola
  Tortola
  Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named it Tortola, meaning "land of the Turtle Dove". Columbus named the island Santa Ana...
  
   c.a.
• Jost van Dyke
  Jost Van Dyke
  At roughly 8 square kilometers, and about 3 square miles Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Jost Van Dyke lies about 8 km to the...
  
   c.a.
• Virgin Gorda
  Virgin Gorda
  Virgin Gorda is the third-largest and second most populous of the British Virgin Islands . Located at approximately 18 degrees, 48 minutes North, and 64 degrees, 30 minutes West, it covers an area of about...
  
   c.a.
• Marie Galante (May 1676)
• Grenada
  Grenada
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   (1675)

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

• Maranhao
  Maranhão
  Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil. To the north lies the Atlantic Ocean. Maranhão is neighbored by the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent...
  
  
• Ceara
• Rio Grande do Norte
• Paraiba
• Itamaraca
• Pernmabuco
• Alagoas
• Fernando de Noronha
• Bahia

Suriname

Suriname

Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...

• Paramaribo
  Paramaribo
  Paramaribo is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 250,000 people, more than half of Suriname's population...
  
  
• Sommelsdijk
• Joden Savanne