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ID: 7000564
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000564
Record Type:
administrative
Cape Coast (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 06 39 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.1119
decimal degrees
Long: 001 14 34 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.2437
decimal degrees
Note:
One of Ghana's oldest towns; grew around Cape Coast Castle, built by Swedes 1655 & taken by British 1663; important seat of Ashanti traders; status declined with addition of railways early 1900s; harbor ceased 1962; an educational center.
Names:
Cape Coast
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Cape Coast Castle
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ghana
(nation) (
P
)
............
Central
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Cape Coast
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Portuguese in 1400s
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
since 1976
university center (
C
)
commercial center (
H
)
............
of British Gold Coast, 1663-1874
capital (
H
)
............
of colony until 1877
Sources and Contributors:
Cape Coast..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 824
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
39
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
217
Cape Coast Castle..........
[
VP
]
................................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 824
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 2 January 2015
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
39
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
217
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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