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Fort Saint Anthony, Axim, Ghana, 2014

Fort Saint Anthony

2014 Axim, Ghana

Fort Saint Anthony overlooks the coastal town of Axim in western Ghana. Built by the Portuguese in the early sixteenth century and later held by the Dutch, it is among the oldest surviving European fortifications on Africa's Gold Coast.

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