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ID: 8698216
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698216
Record Type:
administrative
Denkyera (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 56 56 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 002 09 57 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.1669
decimal degrees
Note:
Akan kingdom on the southwest coast of present-day Ghana. Dwokwa was its first capital; the kingdom dominated the market at Elmina. Supplanted by the Asante in the 18th century.
Names:
Denkyera
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Denkyira
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Ghana
(nation) (
P
)
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Denkyera
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
17th-18th centuries
kingdom (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Denkyera..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 26 October 2016
Denkyira..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 26 October 2016
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 26 October 2016
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 26 October 2016
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 26 October 2016
..........
McCaskie, Denkyira (2007)
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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