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Gorée Island

A small island off Dakar, Senegal, that from the 15th to 19th centuries was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast, held in succession by Portuguese, Dutch, English and French colonial powers - its Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) stands today as one of the world's most visited memorials to the Atlantic slave trade.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1444 CE mainstream
  Portuguese traders first establish a presence on the island source
• 1978 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

14.6672° N, 17.3983° W

Sources

• https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/european-control-goree
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/26/

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