Elmina
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Elmina, Ghana São Jorge de Mina The present name evolved from the previous Portuguese name ‘St George of the Mine’, a reference to the belief that the gold of Guinea was mined; it was not, being panned from alluvial deposits. Nevertheless, the Portuguese appreciated the quantity of gold here and called the whole Guinea coast El Mina. The first European foothold in black Africa, a fort was built here on the orders of John II (1455–95), King of Portugal (1481–95), by Diogo de Azambuja in 1482 near an African village to ensure that only Portuguese ships could trade along this coast. Four years later fort and village combined and a wall was built round them. Elmina was the Portuguese headquarters on the Gold Coast until the Dutch conquest in 1637.
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