EU: links Kasteel Sint George, rechts Fort Sin Jago te Elmina aan de goudkust, eind 19e eeuw mogelijk (1872)
1872 Elmina, Ghana
This late 19th-century view, taken around 1872, shows St. George's Castle on the left and Fort Sint Jago on the right at Elmina on Ghana's Gold Coast; the Dutch built Fort Sint Jago in the 1660s to guard the older castle from the hill above.
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