Ghana
Central Region
Mfantsiman Municipal District

Fort Amsterdam

Fort Amsterdam is a former slave fort in , 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.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: fortidied colonial trading post in Kormantin, Ghana
  • Also known as: “Fort Amsterdam, Ghana”, “Fort Cormantin”, “Fort Courmantyne”, and “Fort Kormantin”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort William.

Castle
Photo: Owula kpakpo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a fort in , , , originally known as Fort Anomabo and renamed 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. is situated 3½ km southwest of Fort Amsterdam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abandze and Anomabu.

Village
Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
is a small town near the Atlantic Ocean coast of , lying north-east of in the Central Region of Ghana. In 2010, the town had a population of 3,632.

Village
Photo: Flickr account, OGL.
, also spelled Anomabo and formerly as Annamaboe, is a town on the coast of the of the of South . is situated 3½ km southwest of Fort Amsterdam.

Town
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is a town and the capital of the in the Central Region of . As of 2013, has a population of 24,689 people. is situated 4 km east of Fort Amsterdam.

Fort Amsterdam

Latitude
5.19241° or 5° 11′ 33″ north
Longitude
-1.09318° or 1° 5′ 35″ west
Open location code
6CQW5WR4+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 520993882
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Wiki­data ID
Q478784
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Twi—“Fort Amsterdam” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Cormantin Abankɛseɛ”
  • Chinese: “阿姆斯特丹堡”
  • Dagbani: “Amsterdam, Ghana”
  • Dutch: “Fort Amsterdam (Ghana)”
  • Dutch: “Fort Amsterdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن امستردام”
  • French: “Fort Amsterdam”
  • French: “Kormantin”
  • German: “Fort Amsterdam”
  • German: “Fort Cormantine”
  • Hausa: “Sansanin Amsterdam, Ghana”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת אמסטרדם”
  • Japanese: “フォート・アムステルダム”
  • Russian: “Форт Амстердам (Гана)”
  • Russian: “Форт Амстердам”
  • Tatar: “Амстердам (Кормантин) кальгасы, Гана”
  • Turkish: “Amsterdam Kalesi, Gana”
  • Twi: “Amsterdam Abankɛseɛ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Amsterdam”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.