Albreda
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Coordinates: 13 ° 20 ′ N , 16 ° 23 ′ W |
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| Region: | North Bank | |
| District: | Upper Niumi | |
| Residents: | 1726 (2013)
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Albreda (spelling variant: Albadarr and in the language Wolof Daraga ) is a town of historical importance in the West African state of Gambia .
According to a calculation for 2013, around 1726 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 1993 was 1382.
geography
The place is located on the north bank of the Gambia River in the North Bank Region , Upper Niumi district , about five kilometers from Kunta Kinteh Island with Fort James and about one kilometer from Juffure .
history
Albreda was founded between 1520 and 1681 by a marabout named Musa Gaye from the Wolof people .
The French leased a small piece of land west of the village of Juffure from the local ruler Niumi Mansa in 1681. It became a French exclave on the north bank of the Gambia River , with permission to open a trading post there. The resident population in Albreda and Juffure accepted trade with the Europeans and made themselves dependent on it. Traded with the French ( Sénégal Compagnie ) or with the British ( Royal African Company ), depending on where the better deal was to be concluded. The British Empire had owned James Island with Fort James since 1661 .
In the following 176 years there were quite frequent conflicts between the three parties, the British claimed the monopoly over trade on the Gambia River. With the Treaty of Versailles (1783) Great Britain gave up branches in what is now Senegal , in return France undertook to accept the status on the Gambia River. In the following years, however, Albreda continued to be used by the French as a slave fort.
Great Britain had banned the slave trade in 1807 , acquired the island of St. Mary's Island in 1816 and established the settlement of Bathurst (now Banjul ) there. With the fortresses, it controlled the Gambia River and now hunted foreign slave ships .
The Albreda exclave was ceded to Great Britain by the French colonial empire in 1857 . Fort Albreda is described partly as a 'trading post' and partly as a 'slave fort'. However, it was smaller than its British counterpart Fort James, which served a similar purpose for the British.
World Heritage
With Kunta Kinteh Island and associated sites , seven objects were combined and classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003 . There are two objects in Albreda, of which only ruins exist. It is the Compagnie Française d'Afrique Occidentale Building ( 13 ° 19 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 5.9 ″ W ) and the remains of the Portuguese Chapel .
In Huffure, a small museum was set up in the building of Maurel Frères in 1996 , which shows the time of slavery .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Fabakary Jatta (* 1952), politician
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Albreda on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
