Danish Gold Coast

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Danish Gold Coast Danish Guinea Danske Guldkyst Dansk Guinea
1658–1850
Flag of Denmark Coat of arms of Denmark
Kingdom of Denmark Overseas Territories
Denmark Territorial Entity
Status	Denmark-Norway crown colony (1658–1814) Denmark territory (1814–1850)
Capital	Osu (Christiansborg) (1658–1850)
Common languages	Danish, German (official) Ga, Ewe, Akan
King of Denmark
• 1658–1670	Frederick III of Denmark
• 1670–1699	Christian V of Denmark
• 1699–1730	Frederick IV of Denmark
• 1730–1746	Christian VI of Denmark
• 1746–1766	Frederick V of Denmark
• 1766–1808	Christian VII of Denmark
• 1808–1839	Frederick VI of Denmark
• 1839–1848	Christian VIII of Denmark
• 1848–1863	Frederick VII of Denmark
Governor-General
• 1658–1659	Hendrik Carloff
• 1847–1850	Rasmus Eric Schmidt
History
• Denmark annexation from Sweden	1658
• Treaty of Copenhagen	1660
• Disestablished	March 30 1850
Currency	Danish rigsdaler
Preceded by Succeeded by Swedish Gold Coast British Gold Coast
Today part of	Ghana

Gold Coast
Bonos (Bono state) Fantes (Mankessim Kingdom) Ashantis (Ashanti Empire) Dagombas (Kingdom of Dagbon) Danes (Danish Gold Coast) Dutch (Dutch Gold Coast) English-British (British Gold Coast) Ewes (British Togoland) Germans (Brandenburger Gold Coast, Prussian Gold Coast) Portuguese (Portuguese Gold Coast) Swedes (Swedish Gold Coast) Gold Coastians–Ghanaians (Ghana)
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The Danish Gold Coast (Danish: Danske Guldkyst or Dansk Guinea) was a part of the Gold Coast (roughly present-day southeast Ghana), which is on the petroleum and natural gas rich Gulf of Guinea (hence the territory is sometimes called Danish Guinea) in Africa. It was colonized by the Danes, first under indirect rule by the Danish West India Company (a chartered company), later as a crown colony.

In 1850, Denmark's five Danish Gold Coast Territorial Settlements and forts of the Kingdom of Denmark were sold to the United Kingdom and were incorporated into the British Gold Coast.

On April 20, 1663, the Danish seizure of Fort Christiansborg and Carlsborg (Cape Castle) completed the annexation of the Swedish Gold Coast settlements. From 1674 to 1755 the settlements were administered by the Danish West India-Guinea Company. From December 1680 to 29 August 1682, the Portuguese occupied Fort Christiansborg.

In 1750 it was made a Danish crown colony. From 1782 to 1785 it was under British occupation.^{[citation needed]} On 30 March 1850 all of Denmark's Danish Gold Coast Territorial Settlements and forts of the Kingdom of Denmark were sold to Britain^{[citation needed]} and incorporated into the British Gold Coast.

The title of its chief colonial administrator was Opperhoved (singular; sometimes rendered in English as Station Chief) since 1658, only in 1766 upgraded to Governor.

The following forts were in the possession of Denmark until all forts were sold to the United Kingdom in 1850.

Apart from these main forts, several forts and trading posts were temporarily held by the Danes.

• Colonial Heads of Danish Gold Coast the office-holders of the Danish Gold Coast

• WorldStatesmen- Ghana

• Closing the Books: Governor Edward Carstensen on Danish Guinea, 1842-50. Translated from the Danish by Tove Storsveen. Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2010.

• Article about the Danish Gold Coast during the Napoleonic Wars Template:Da icon