Portuguese Gold Coast
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire , also known as the Portuguese Overseas Empire or the Portuguese Colonial Empire , was the first global empire in history...
on the West African Gold Coast
Gold Coast (region)
The Gold Coast was the region of West Africa which is now the nation of Ghana. Early uses of the term refer literally to the coast and not the interior. It was not until the 19th century that the term came to refer to areas that are far from the coast...
(present day 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...
) on the Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian is in the gulf....
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History
The PortuguesePortugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from January 21, 1482:
- Fort São Jorge da Mina de Ouro, modern ElminaElminaElmina, 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...
: January 21 1482 – August 28–9 1637; this became the capital - Fort de Santo António de Axim, modern AximAximAxim 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....
: 1486 – February 1642 - Fort São Francisco Xavier, modern OsuOSUOSU can stand for:* Institutions of higher education:** Ohio State University** Oregon State University** Oklahoma State University** Oswego State University * The Order of St...
: 1640–1642 - Fort São Sebastião, modern ShamaShama, GhanaShama 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,...
: 1526–1637.
On August 29 1637 the Dutch occupied São Jorge da Mina.
On January 9 1642 the whole colony was ceded to the Dutch, who made it part of their 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...
colony.
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 AlbergariaLopo Soares de AlbergariaLopo Soares de Albergaria was the third Governor of Portuguese India, having reached India in 1515 to supersede governor Afonso de Albuquerque....
- c.1502 – c.1504 - Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco
- c.1504 – 1504 - António de Miranda de Azevedo
- 1504–1505 - Diogo Lopes de SequeiraDiogo Lopes de SequeiraDiogo Lopes de Sequeira was a Portuguese fidalgo, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca, he arrived at Malacca on 11 September, 1509. He left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah, the local leader, was devising his assassination...
- 1505 – 15… - Martinho da Silva
- 15… – c.1508 - …
- c.1508 – 1509 - Bobadilha
- 1509 – c.1510 - Manuel de Góis
- c.1510 – 1513 - Afonso Caldeira
- 1513 – c.1517 - …
- c.1517 – 1519 - Fernão Lopes Correia
- 1519–1522 - Duarte Pacheco PereiraDuarte Pacheco PereiraDuarte Pacheco Pereira, called the Great, was a 15th century Portuguese sea captain, soldier, explorer and cartographer. He travelled particularly in the central Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde islands, along the coast of West Africa and to India...
- 1522–1524 - Afonso de AlbuquerqueAfonso de AlbuquerqueAfonso de Albuquerque[p][n] was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean...
- 1524–1525 - João de BarrosJoão de BarrosJoão de Barros , called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia , a history of the Portuguese in India and Asia.-Early years:...
- 1525–1529 - …
- 1529 – 15… - Estêvão da Gama
- 1536–1539 - Manuel de Albuquerque
- 1539–1541 - António 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… - Bernardino Ribeiro Pacheco
- 15… – 1586 - …
- 1586 – c.1595 - João Róis Coutinho
- c.1595 – c.1596 - Duarte Lôbo da Gama
- c.1596 – 1608 - Cristóvão da GamaCristovão da GamaCristóvão da Gama was a Portuguese soldier, who led a Portuguese army of 400 musketeers on a crusade in Ethiopia and Somalia against the far larger Somali Muslim army of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi aided by the Ottoman Empire...
- 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 Serra de Morais
- 1629 – c.1632 - …
- c.1632 – 1634 - Pedro de Mascarenhas
- 1634 – 9 January 1642 - António da Rocha Magalhães