Kilwa Kisiwani ('Kilwa Island') is an island, national historic site, and hamlet community located in the township of Kilwa Masoko, the district seat...

The Kilwa Sultanate was a sultanate, centered at Kilwa (an island off modern-day, Kilwa District in Lindi Region of Tanzania), whose authority, at its...

The Great Mosque of Kilwa is a congregational mosque on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, in Kilwa Masoko in Kilwa District in Lindi Region of Tanzania. It...

Kilwa may refer to: Kilwa Kisiwani, a historic Swahili city-state island settlement in Lindi Region, across from the town of Kilwa Masoko Kilwa Masoko...

seat (capital) is the town of Kilwa Masoko. The district is named after the medieval Swahili city state of Kilwa Kisiwani. According to the 2012 census...

time. This lake island is named after the original Indian ocean island Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. v t e 9°16′S 28°27′E / 9.267°S 28.450°E / -9.267; 28...

recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the nearby stone town Kilwa Kisiwani. In total, archaeologists have found six mosques, four cemeteries, and...

prosperous Swahili city of Kilwa Kisiwani across the Kilwa sound. The name Masoko means "markets" in the Swahili language. The town of Kilwa Masoko as we know...

urban centers of Mombasa, Lamu and Malindi in Kenya and Songo Mnara, Kilwa Kisiwani, and Zanzibar in Tanzania. The distribution of Swahili architecture...

invasions. The region is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, namely; Kilwa Kisiwani and Selous Game Reserve. According to the 2012 national census, the...

Aden Zeila Mogadishu Mombasa Zanzibar Dhofar Al-Hasa Qatif Muscat Latakia Kilwa On 2 Rajab 725 AH (14 June 1325 AD), Ibn Battuta set off from his home town...

13th-century Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta noted that the great mosque of Kilwa Kisiwani was made of coral stone (the only one of its kind in the world). In...

Causeways and Platforms of the 13th- to 16th-Century City-States of Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania". The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 1 (37):...

The Sack of Kilwa (Portuguese: Saque de Quiloa) was a military campaign carried out by the Portuguese on 24 July 1505, led by Dom Francisco de Almeida...

Serengeti Ngorongoro Kilimanjaro Kilwa Kisiwani Kondoa Selous Game Reserve Zanzibar The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...

2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011. 31st session 2007, pp. 21–22 "Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010. 28th session...

2021. "Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010. "Decision – 28COM 15B.41 – Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of...

an island located in Kilwa Masoko ward of Kilwa District in Lindi Region, Tanzania. The island is just south of Kilwa Kisiwani. Pollard, Edward (September...

Lists of incumbents Elhanafy, Heba (25 June 2020). "Building Africa: Kilwa Kisiwani, the Indian Ocean Trade, and the Rise of East African City-States"....

Continent. Lexington Books. p. 301. ISBN 0-7391-0731-3. Hirst, K. Kris. "Kilwa Kisiwani. Medieval Trade Center of Eastern Africa". Prashad, Vijay (2002). Everybody...

been established by the 19th century. Kilwa Kivinje, 25 km north of Kilwa Kisiwani, was the main port in the Kilwa area in 19th century during Omani and...

on 26 May reached Kilwa Kisiwani, where Cabral made an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a treaty with its king. From Kilwa Kisiwani, the fleet departed...

Kongwe (Old Fort), Stone Town, Zanzibar (c. 1700) Old Portuguese fort, Kilwa Kisiwani (c. 1500) Borj El Kebir, Djerba island (14th century) Borj El Kebir...

"Swahili Coast". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2019-11-14. Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, retrieved 2019-10-30 "Contagion of discontent: Muslim extremism...

formed part of a trade network linked to Kilwa and extending as far as China. Copper coins found at Kilwa Kisiwani appear to be of the same pure ore found...

Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman (14th century), sultan of the island of Kilwa Kisiwani Sunar Sulaiman (born 1979), Indonesian footballer Suleiman, a name,...

network was Indian Ocean trade. Ruins of Great Mosque of Gede in Kenya Kilwa Kisiwani ruins in Tanzania Ancient Somali city-states Category:Swahili city-states...

transported in caravans of no less than 500 slaves to the small island of Kilwa Kisiwani off the coast of modern-day Tanzania. The founding of these various...

of the settlement by mid-1700 along with Mombasa, Pemba Island and Kilwa Kisiwani. The town continued to act as a trading port for ivory and slaves under...

Term Incumbent Notes 1203 Pate sultanate independence from Kilwa Kisiwani Mfalume (Sultans) Nabahani Dynasty 1689 to 1713 Bwana Mkuu, Mfalume 1713 to 1722...