Asen (state)

Asen (state)

Asen was one of several late 17th century states in modern Ghana.

It was located south of Denkyira and thus between Denkyira and the coast. This lead to wars between the two in the 1790s caused by Denkyira wanting to maintain of the trade from its realm to the coast.

ources

McCaskie, T. C. "Denkyira in the Making of Asante" in "The Journal of African History" vol. 48 (2007), no. 1, p. 1.


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