Portuguese Gold Coast
Portuguese Gold Coast Costa do Ouro | |||||||
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| Status | Colony of the Portuguese Empire | ||||||
| Capital | São Jorge da Mina | ||||||
| Common languages | Portuguese | ||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||
| 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.
Contents
1 History
2 Captains-major
3 References
4 External links
History
The Portuguese established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from 21 January 1482:
- Fort São Jorge da Mina de Ouro, modern Elmina: 21 January 1482 – 28–9 August 1637; this became the capital
Fort Santo António de Axim, modern Axim: 1486 – 1642- Fort São Francisco Xavier, modern Osu, district of Accra: 1640–1642
- Fort São Sebastião, modern Shama: 1526–1637.
On 29 August 1637 the Dutch occupied São Jorge da Mina.
On 9 January 1642 the whole colony was ceded to the Dutch, who made it part of their Dutch Gold Coast colony.
Captains-major
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
- c.1510 – Manuel de Góis[1]
- 1513 – Afonso Caldeira
- c.1513 – António Fróis[1]
- 1514 – 1516? - Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco
- 1516? – 1519 - Fernão Lopes Correia
- 1519 – 1522 - Duarte Pacheco Pereira
- 1522 – 1524 - Afonso de Albuquerque
- 1524 – 1525 - João de Barros[1]:26
- 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
- 1548 – 1550 - Lopo de Sousa Coutinho[1]:30
- 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
References
^ abcd Wilks, Ivor. Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1997). Bakewell, Peter, ed. Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Aldershot: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 24.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link).mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
External links
- WorldStatesmen.org: Portuguese Gold Coast
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