The Island GOREÈ (MÄDCHEN-Insel) received it´s name from the "low german" word GOERE what describes a "small, naughty, lively girl". Subsequently the opponents of these "MÄDELINS" where forced to construct several fortresses on that island at DAKAR / SENEGAL 
that later in a certain moment became famous as Fort Nassau and Fort Orange

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Island of Goreé

FORT ORANGE

Island of Goreé

FORT NASSAU

Historic References in SENEGAL / West-Africa to the ancient Nassau County

Orange - Nassau Project

Dipl. Biol. Peter Ulrich Zanger