Egyaa No.1

Places of Interest

Fort Amsterdam

Castle

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Fort Amsterdam is a former slave fort in Abandze, Central region, Ghana. It was built by the English between 1638 and 1645 as Fort Cormantin or Fort Courmantyne, and was captured by admiral Michiel de Ruyter of the Dutch West India Company in 1665, in retaliation for the capture of several Dutch forts by the English Admiral Holmes in 1664.

Fort William

Castle

Photo: Owula kpakpo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort William is a fort in Anomabu, Central Region, Ghana, originally known as Fort Anomabo and renamed Fort William in the 1830s by its then-commander, Brodie Cruickshank, who added one storey to the main building, and renamed the fort after King William IV.

Places in the Area

Anomabu

Village

Photo: Flickr account, OGL.

Anomabu, also spelled Anomabo and formerly as Annamaboe, is a town on the coast of the Mfantsiman Municipal District of the Central Region of South Ghana.

Abandze

Village

Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.

Abandze is a small town near the Atlantic Ocean coast of Ghana, lying north-east of Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. In 2010, the town had a population of 3,632.

Saltpond

Town

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Saltpond is a town and the capital of the Mfantsiman Municipal District in the Central Region of Ghana. As of 2013, Saltpond has a population of 24,689 people. Saltpond is situated 6 km northeast of Egyaa No.1.

Egyaa No.1

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Localities in the Area

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