Dutch Cape Coast

State · 1653–1795 CE · at its largest around 1788 CE

Dutch-held forts and trading posts on the Gold Coast of West Africa (modern Ghana), where European powers competed for the gold and Atlantic slave trades.

On its lands while it lasted

• Kingdom of Kongo (c. 1390–1914 CE): Central African kingdom with its capital at Mbanza Kongo; after Portuguese contact in 1483 its rulers adopted Christianity, and it later became deeply entangled in the Atlantic slave trade.
• Queen Nzinga (c. 1583 CE – 1663 CE): Queen of the Mbundu kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba who resisted Portuguese expansion in Angola for decades through war and diplomacy.

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