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BRANDENBURGER GOLD COAST Since May 1682 a Chartered Company from the margravial Electorate of Kur-Brandenburg , the core of the later Prussian kingdom, the Brandenburg African Company, founded circa 1680, established a minor West African colony consisting of two Gold Coast settlements on the Gulf Of Guinea , in present Ghana :
The German governors during this Brandenburger era were:
PRUSSIAN GOLD COAST On 15 January 1701 it was renamed Prussian Gold Coast Settlements, long before the Brandenburg electorate itself was absorbed by Prussia. From 1711 to April 1712 the Dutch occupy Fort Dorothea again. In 1717 the colony is physically abandoned by Prussia, so 1717 - 1724 John Konny (or in Dutch Jan Conny) can occupy Gross-Friedrichsburg, from 1721 in opposition to Dutch rule. In 1721 the rights to it are sold to the Dutch, who rename it Hollandia, as part of their larger Dutch Gold Coast colony. The Prussian era governors were:
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