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Keta is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Keta Municipal District.〔(Touring Ghana - Volta Region ). touringghana.com.〕 Keta is the sixty-first most populous settlement in Ghana in terms of population, with a population of 23,207.〔 Parts of the town were devastated by sea erosion between the 1960s and 1980s. Keta is mentioned in Maya Angelou's ''All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes''. ==History== Keta was settled by the Anlo Ewe, a sub-group of the Ewe people who, in the 17th century, migrated to the area from Ketu, in Benin.〔Amenumey, D. E. K. (1968) "The Extension of British Rule to Anlo (South-East Ghana)" ''The Journal of African History'' 9(1): pp. 997–117; (JSTOR copy )〕 Keta was an important trading post between the 14th and the late 20th centuries. The town attracted the interest of the Danish, because they felt they could establish a base here without interference from rival European nations. Their first initiative was to place a factor at Keta to sell alcohol. In 1792, a war between Anloga and Keta broke out. Faced with the threat of war between Peki and an alliance of the Ashanti and the Akwamu, the North German Missionary Society (also known as the Bremen Missionaries) moved the focus of their activities from Peki to Keta. Their missionaries, Dauble and Plessing, landed at nearby Dzelukofe on September 2, 1853. Historically Keta was also known as ''Quittah'' and was assigned B27 as a postal mark.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pbbooks.com/cr24.htm )〕 From 1874 Hausa Constabulary were based at Keta, and soon there grew to be a community of Hausa traders in the town.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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