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Gorée Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off Senegal's coast, stands as a powerful memorial to the transatlantic slave ...
Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World ...
Goree Island lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. Ruled in succession by the Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, it was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast from the ...
The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...
Finally, I settled on the itinerary [that] would take me where I wanted to go: to the Maison des Esclaves at Goree Island, in Senegal and to Cape Coast and Elmina Castles in Ghana. From these ...
named after Senegal's Goree Islands off the coast of Africa. When fire destroyed the buildings in 1802, merchants rebuilt the warehouses in 1811, for trade with Africa continued after Parliament ...
The international campaign for the safeguarding of the Island of Gorée has as its objective the rehabilitation of the heritage and the socio-economic revitalization of the Island, the principal ...
The Senegalese people called it Ber. The Portuguese renamed it Ila de Palma. The name was changed to Good Reed by the Dutch and the French called the island Goree - meaning good harbour. But the name ...
2009 33COM 7B.48 - Island of Gorée (Senegal) (C 26) 2007 31COM 7B.52 - Island of Gorée (Senegal) 2006 30COM 7B.43 - State of Conservation (Island of Gorée) 2005 29COM 7B.37 - Island of Gorée (Senegal) ...