Brandenburger Gold Coast Settlements | |||||||
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| 1682–1721 | |||||||
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 Location of Groß-Friedrichsburg within Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana, marked by the black dot and flag. | |||||||
 Inside Groß-Friedrichsburg. View in February 1884. | |||||||
| Status | Brandenburger colony (1682–1701) Prussian colony (1701–1721) | ||||||
| Capital | Groß Friedrichsburg | ||||||
| Common languages | German, Akan | ||||||
| Religion | Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Akan religion | ||||||
| Elector of Brandenburg, later King of Prussia | |||||||
• 1640–1688 (Founded colony in 1682) | Frederick William | ||||||
• 1688–1713 | Frederick I | ||||||
• 1713–1740 (Sold colony to Dutch in 1721) | Frederick William I | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Foundation of Brandenburg African Company | May 1682 | ||||||
• Renamed Prussian Gold Coast Settlements | 15 January 1701 | ||||||
• Sold to Netherlands | 1721 | ||||||
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| Today part of | Ghana | ||||||
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The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a colony of Brandenburg-Prussia, later the Kingdom of Prussia, on the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1701, after which it became a Prussian colony from 1701 to 1721. In 1721, King Frederick William I of Prussia sold it for 7,200 ducats and 12 slaves to the Dutch West India Company.