Keta Municipal District is one of the eighteen districts in Volta Region , Ghana . Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Keta District , which was created from the former Anlo District Council, until it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 1 November 2007 (effectively 29 February 2008) to become Keta Municipal District . However on 19 February 2019, the western part of the district was split off to create Anloga District ; thus the remaining part has been retained as Keta Municipal District . The municipality is located in the southeast part of Volta Region and has Keta as its capital town.
6-522: Keta Municipal District is bounded by: In addition to Keta, the capital and administrative centre, Anloga (Angloga) , Anyako and Abor are the only towns, Keta Municipal District contains the following villages: Tropical savanna climates have monthly mean temperature above 18 °C (64 °F) in every month of the year and typically a pronounced dry season, with the driest month having precipitation less than 60mm (2.36 in) of precipitation. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate
12-903: A population of 35,933 people and. and also serves as the seat of the Awormefia of Anlo State and the traditional, ancestral and spiritual capital of the Anlo Anlo Ewe . Anloga became the traditional and ritual capital of the Anlo Ewe in the seventeenth century after they migrated to the Keta Lagoon area from Notsie in Togo . Following the Anlo-Danish War also known as Sagbadre War,the Danes built Fort Prinzenstein at Keta in 1784. However their efforts to exert any power beyond
18-661: Is " Aw ". (Tropical Savanna Climate). 5°54′11.16″N 0°59′12.48″E / 5.9031000°N 0.9868000°E / 5.9031000; 0.9868000 Anloga Anloga is a town in Anloga District of the Volta Region in southeast Ghana . It lies east of the Volta River and just south of the Keta Lagoon . Anloga is the forty-seventh most populous town in Ghana, in terms of population, with
24-582: The Gold Coast colony Etymology Anlo:ga (Ewe language) - Me: nlɔ: - I have shrunk/ my skin has shrunk/shriveled. These words were uttered by Torgbui Wenya , the founder of Anlo State to convey his reluctance to move farther after he left his kinsmen in Wheta Atiteti to move to the seashore. The suffix ‘gã' denotes big in Ewe, so 'Anloga' (Ewe: Aŋlɔgã) literally means Big Anlo in reference to it being
30-671: The money provided by the Danes. But the mock fight somehow turned into a real battle, leaving a legacy of enmity between Anloga and Keta. Keta then moved across the lagoon to build the Somey State with Agbozume as their traditional capital. This substantially weakened the Anlo people. In 1850 Fort Prinzenstein was sold to the British , however it took them another twenty five years to integrate towns like Anloga into their colony which they called
36-511: The range of the guns located in the fort proved to be ineffective. In June 1790 a Danish official was killed at Agorko near Denu in retaliation for him killing the chief of Keta years earlier. Lacking any effective military forces, the Danes hired the Anloga to punish the Keta. Initially the Anloga and Keta agreed to stage a mock battle after which the Anloga would burn a few Keta houses and then share
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