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ELMINA , a See also:town on the See also:Gold See also:Coast, See also:British See also:West See also:Africa, in 5° 4' N., 1° 2o' W. and about 8 m. W. of Cape Coast. Pop. about 4000. Facing the See also:Atlantic on a rocky See also:peninsula is Fort St See also:George, considered the finest fort on the See also:Guinea coast. It is built square with high walls, and has See also:accommodation for 200 soldiers. On the See also:land See also:side were formerly two moats, cut in the See also:rock on which the See also:castle stands. The castle is the See also:residence of the See also:commissioner of the See also:district and other officials. The houses in the native See also:quarter are mostly built of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, that material being plentiful in the vicinity.
Elmina is the earliest See also:European See also:settlement on the Gold Coast, and was visited by the Portuguese in 1481. See also:Christopher See also:Columbus is believed to have been one of the See also:officers who took See also:part in this voyage. The Portuguese at once began to build the castle now known as Fort St George, but it was not completed till eighty years afterwards. Another defensive See also:work is Fort St See also:Jago, built in 1666, which is behind the town and at some distance from the coast. (In the latter See also:half of the 19th See also:century it was converted into a See also:prison.) Elmina was captured by the Dutch in 1637, and ceded to them by treaty in 164o. They made it the See also:chief See also:port for the produce of See also:Ashanti. With the other Dutch possessions on the Guinea coast, it was transferred to See also:Great See also:Britain in See also:April 1872. The See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Ashanti, claiming to be ground landlord, objected to its See also:transfer, and the result was the Ashanti See also:war of 1873—1874. For many years the greatest output of gold from this coast came from Elmina. The See also:annual export is said to have been nearly £3,000,000 in the See also:early years of the 18th century, but the figure is probably exaggerated. Since 1900 the bulk of the export See also:trade in gold has been transferred to See also:Sekondi (q.v.). Prempeh, the ex-king of Ashanti, was detained in the castle (1896) until his removal to the See also:Seychelles.
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