The 974 Stadium in Qatar will host a high -caliber confrontation, when the representative of the brown continent, Ghana, meets its Portuguese counterpart, in a match held in the first round of the Group Eight competitions in the 2022 World Cup hosted by Qatar.
Its previous name was the Gold Coast, and its current name was called the name of the historical state known as the Ghana Empire, despite not falling within the borders of that country, and covers an area of 238,535 square kilometers.
The origin of the word Ghana means “warrior king” and this title was granted to the kings of the Ghanaian Empire in the Middle Ages in West Africa, but the empire was located in the Guinea region to the north a little of the modern Ghana state.
Ghana’s current lands were inhabited for a thousand years, and the history of the first permanent country dates back to the eleventh century, and many kingdoms and empires appeared over the centuries, and the strongest kingdoms were the Kingdom of Ashanti.
Starting in the fifteenth century, many European powers fought against the region for commercial rights, and the British eventually tightened their control on the coast by the late nineteenth century after more than a century of local resistance, and the current borders of Ghana were established by 1900 as the Gold Coast. British..
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