CULTURETECHLENSElmina Castle
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Combined Graph record U-01399 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0074. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Elmina Castle (St. George's d'Elmina Castle) is a castle at Elmina on the coast of Ghana, part of the UNESCO World Heritage property 'Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions'; UNESCO states it was built in 1482 and is one of the oldest European buildings outside Europe, that the Ghana castles and forts played a significant part in the developing slave trade, and that they are a symbol of European-African encounters and of the starting point of the African Diaspora (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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Elmina Castle (St. George's d'Elmina Castle) is a castle at Elmina on the coast of Ghana, part of the UNESCO World Heritage property 'Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions'; UNESCO states it was built in 1482 and is one of the oldest European buildings outside Europe, that the Ghana castles and forts played a significant part in the developing slave trade, and that they are a symbol of European-African encounters and of the starting point of
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- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/34 (verification source · master store)
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Elmina Castle (St. George's d'Elmina Castle) is a castle at Elmina on the coast of Ghana, part of the UNESCO World Heritage property 'Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions'; UNESCO states it was built in 1482 and is one of the oldest European buildings outside Europe, that the Ghana castles and forts played a significant part in the developing slave trade, and that they are a symbol of European-African encounters and of the starting point of the African Diaspora (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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