Portuguese Gold Coast
| Portuguese Gold Coast Costa do Ouro |
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| Colony of the Portuguese Empire |
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| Capital | São Jorge da Mina | |||||
| Languages | Portuguese | |||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||
| Political structure | Colony of the Portuguese Empire |
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| Head of state | ||||||
| - | King 1482-1495 (first) |
John II of Portugal | ||||
| - | King 1640-1642 (last) |
John IV of Portugal | ||||
| Captain-major | ||||||
| - | 1482-1484 (first) | Diogo de Azambuja | ||||
| - | 1634-1642 (last) | António da Rocha Magalhães | ||||
| History | ||||||
| - | Established | 21 January 1482 | ||||
| - | Disestablished | 9 January 1642 | ||||
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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.
History [edit]
The Portuguese established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from January 21, 1482:
- Fort São Jorge da Mina de Ouro, modern Elmina: January 21 1482 – August 28–9 1637; this became the capital
- Fort Santo António de Axim, modern Axim: 1486 – 1642
- Fort São Francisco Xavier, modern Osu: 1640–1642
- Fort São Sebastião, modern Shama: 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 colony.
Captains-major [edit]
The Portuguese governors, going by this modest, military style, were:
- 1482 - 1485 - Diogo de Azambuja
- 1485 - 1486 - Álvaro Vaz Pestano
- 148? - Álvaro Mascarenhas
- c.1487 - João Fogaça
- 1495 - 1499 - Lopo Soares de Albergaria
- 1499? - 1503? - Fernão Lopes Correia
- 1503? - 1506? - Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
- 1506? - 1509? - António de Bobadilha
- 1509? - 1512? - Manuel de Góis
- 1513 - Afonso Caldeira
- c.1513 - António Fróis
- 1514 - 1516? - Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco
- 1516? - 1519 - Fernão Lopes Correia
- 1519 - 1522 - Duarte Pacheco Pereira
- 1522 - 1524 - Afonso de Albuquerque
- 1524 - 1526 - João de Barros
- 1526 - 1529 - João Vaz de Almada
- 1529 - 1532 - Estêvão da Gama
- 1536 - 1537 - Manuel de Albuquerque
- 1537 - 1540? - ....
- 1540 - 1543 - António de Miranda de Azevedo
- 1541 - 1545? - Lopo de Sousa Coutinho
- 1545 - Diogo Soares de Albergaria (1st time)
- 1545 - 1548 - António de Brito
- 1549? - 1550? - Martim de Castro
- 1550? - 1552? - Diogo Soares de Albergaria (2nd time)
- 1552? - Filipe Lobo
- 1552? - 1556? - Rui de Melo
- 1556 - 155? - Afonso Gonçalves de Botafogo
- 155? - 1559 - António de Melo
- 1559 - Manuel da Fonseca
- 1559 - 1562 - Rui Gomes de Azevedo
- 1562 - 15.. - Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo
- c.1562 - João Vaz de Almada Falcão
- 156? - Francisco de Barros de Paiva
- 1564 - 15.. - Fernando Cardoso
- 15.. - 1570 - ....
- 1570 - 1573 - António de Sá
- c.1573 - Martim Afonso
- c.1574 - c.15.. - Mendio da Mota
- 15.. - c.1579 - ....
- 1579 - c.1583 - Vasco Fernandes Pimentel
- 1583 - 1586 - João Rodrigues Pessanha
- 1586 - 15.. - Bernardinho Ribeiro Pacheco
- 15.. - 1586 - ...
- 1586 - 1594 - João Róis Coutinho
- c.1595 - c.1596 - Duarte Lôbo da Gama
- 1596 - 1608 - Cristóvão de Melo
- 1608 - 1610 - Duarte de Lima
- 1610 - 1613 - João de Castro
- 1613 - 1616 - Pedro da Silva
- 1616/17 - 1624 - Manuel da Cunha de Teive
- 1624 - c.1625 - Francisco de Souto-Maior
- 162? - 162? - Luís Tomé de Castro
- 162? - 1629 - João da Serra de Morais
- 1629 - c.1632 - ....
- 1632 - 1634 - Pedro de Mascarenhas
- 1634 - 1634 - Duarte Borges (acting)
- 1634 - 1642 - André da Rocha Magalhães (acting)
- 1642 - 1642 - Francisco de Sotte
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