Albreda
Albreda is a historic settlement in The Gambia on the north bank of the Gambia River, variously described as a 'trading post' or a 'slave fort'. It is located near Jufureh in the North Bank Division and an arch stands on the beach connecting the two places.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portuguese Chapel of Albreda and Maurel Frères Building.
Portuguese Chapel of Albreda
Ruins
Photo: Tjeerd Wiersma, CC BY 2.0.
The Portuguese Chapel of Albreda or just Albreda Chapel, also Portuguese Chapel of San Domingo, is the name given to a Catholic chapel built by Portuguese explorers in the fifteenth century in the area of Albreda which is now a part of the African country of Gambia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Juffureh and Lamin.
Juffureh
Juffureh is a small town in the Gambia on the North Bank of the Gambia River, most famous as the reputed origin of Alex Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte, as described in Haley's novel Roots.
Lamin
Village
Lamin is a town located in the North Bank Division of the Gambia. It should not be confused with the larger city of Lamin located in the Western Division near the national capital, Banjul. Lamin is situated 5 km west of Albreda.
Albreda
- Type: Village
- Description: historic settlement in the Gambia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: North Bank Division, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
13.33474° or 13° 20′ 5″ northLongitude
-16.38492° or 16° 23′ 6″ westElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
7C558JM8+V2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1643711086OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Albreda” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Албадар”
- Catalan: “Albreda”
- Cebuano: “Albadarr”
- Chinese: “阿尔布雷达”
- Chinese: “阿爾布雷達”
- Dutch: “Albreda”
- Finnish: “Albréda”
- French: “Albreda”
- German: “Albreda”
- German: “Fort Albreda”
- Hausa: “Albreda”
- Irish: “Albreda”
- Japanese: “アルブレダ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albreda”
- Persian: “البردا”
- Polish: “Albreda”
- Russian: “Альбреда”
- South Azerbaijani: “البردا”
- Swedish: “Albadarr”
- Swedish: “Albreda”
- Ukrainian: “Альбреда”
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