Elmina, Ghana

Ghana

Elmina, Ghana draws 84 connections across 3038 places and 20 topics, with history making up the largest share of its Bunkabop graph. The town's Portuguese-built Elmina Castle and nearby Fort Coenraadsburg, where Dutch forces burned the original Portuguese chapel in the Battle of Elmina in 1637, anchor the landmarks cluster. The transatlantic slave trade ties the town to Portugal and Brazil. Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle together hold UNESCO World Heritage Site status as memorials to that trade.

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