Zanzibar (City-State)

This article is about the specific polity Zanzibar (City-State) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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From the X century Zanzibar city was a city-state.

Establishment

January 1001: In the early years of the second millennium AD, Arab and Persian commercial settlements began to spring up on the coast of Tanzania and on the islands in front of it (in particular Zanzibar and Kilwa). The first commercial settlements, with stone buildings (and therefore clearly distinct from those of the Bantu populations of African origin) can be traced back to the 10th century.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

January 1451: The zenith of the Kilwa Kisiwani power was reached in the 15th century. In this period the Swahili Coast was dominated by the powerful city-state of Kilwa Kisiwani, which controlled trade along the East African coast. Kilwa Kisiwani expanded to control Malindi, Inhambane and Sofala and the island-states of Mombassa, Pemba, Zanzibar, Mafia, Comoro and parts of of Mozambique.