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

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...

Kilwa District (Wilaya ya Kilwa in Swahili) is one of six administrative districts of Lindi Region in Tanzania. The District covers an area of 15,000 km2...

Indian Ocean, to the south by the Kilwa District, Lindi Region and to the west by the Morogoro Region. The district capital is the town of Utete on the...

administratively divided into 21 wards. Jaila Kibirashi Kikunde Kilindi Kilwa Kimbe Kisangasa Kwediboma Kwekivu Lwande Mabalanga Masagalu Mkindi Msanja...

Swahili) is 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...

the east by the Kilwa District, to the south by the Ruangwa District and to the west by the Morogoro Region. Most of Liwale district is within the Nyerere...

mines of Eastern Zimbabwe, which reached the town via the old ports of Kilwa and Michangani. In the mid-1820s, the town of Kua on Juani Island was attacked...

Indian Ocean slave trade. Quelimane was founded by Muslim traders (see Kilwa Sultanate) and was one of the oldest towns in the region. The origins of...

online at NRZAM.org: Dr Blair Watson: "The Occupation of Kilwa Island - Extracts from District Notebook No. 6". Vol III No. 1 pp70-74, (1956). The Northern...

1871. Punjab District Gazetteers: Kapurthala. Chandigarh: Revenue Department, Punjab. 1984. p. 37. Baldev Raj Sharma (1984). Punjab District Gazetteers:...

promotional event hosted by the Board of External Trade is situated along Kilwa Road. To lead Tanzania's export efforts, the Board of External Trade, a...

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

considered pejorative. Makunduchi Mafia, Mbwera Kilwa (extinct) Kimgao used to be spoken around Kilwa District and to the south. Maho includes the various...

opened trade with the gold entrepot of Sofala and extorted tribute from Kilwa. Once in India, the armada set about attacking Calicut shipping and disrupting...

likely B. At Kilwa, Coast, in Tanzania, an individual, dated between 1300 CE and 1600 CE, carried haplogroups J2a2a1a1a2a~ and L2a1h. At Kilwa, Coast, in...

people. One thesis based on oral tradition and some written sources (ie: the Kilwa Chronicle) states that immigrants from the Shiraz region in southwestern...

late 15th century by dissidents from the Kilwa Sultante, the sultanate arose during the decline of the Kilwa and Sofala, serving as an alternative entrepôt...

of Africa helped the slow acceptance of Islam. By the 10th century, the Kilwa Sultanate was founded by Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi (was one of seven sons...

control 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...

Kilwa (East Africa) in 1504-05 by the admiral Vasco da Gama. Portuguese monstrance; 16th century. Portuguese plate; 19th century. Cameo of Diogo de Paiva...

systems eliminated open sewage ditches and cesspools. In post-classical Kilwa the wealthy enjoyed indoor plumbing in their stone homes. Most large cities...

ivory, which were then exchanged up the coast to larger port cities like Kilwa and Mombasa. The Island of Mozambique after which the country is named,...

Fernão de Loronha and of a fort in the allied Kingdom of Cochin in India by Afonso de Albuquerque. 1505 – The construction of forts at Kilwa, Sofala...

Kinjikitile was a member of the Matumbi people, living in what is now Kilwa District of Lindi Region in Tanzania (then German East Africa, later Tanganyika)...

social, and religious power was increasingly vested in Kilwa, Tanzania's major medieval city-state. Kilwa controlled a number of smaller ports stretching down...

sacked by the Portuguese. In 1502, the sultanate became independent from Kilwa Kisiwani and was renamed as Mvita (in Swahili) or Manbasa (Arabic). The...

Kilwa. Bazaruto supports a substantial population of crocodiles. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bazaruto National Sea Park. "Perfil do Distrito de...

dominated much of southeast Africa's coast, laying waste to Sofala and Kilwa, by 1515. Their main goal was to dominate the trade with India; however...

(Bantu expansion and Zanj) (List of historic Swahili coast settlements) Kilwa, Kunduchi, Mbuamaji, Tongoni, Kimbiji, Kaole, Malindi, Gedi, Pemba sultanates...