Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania and is located in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region. Originally a Swahili settlement and then an Arab...
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declining. He sent a message to Zanzibar requesting that supplies be sent to Ujiji and he then headed west, forced by ill health to travel with slave traders...
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Kigoma-Ujiji District is one of the eight administrative districts of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The District covers an area of 92.7 km2 (35.8 sq mi)...
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Kigoma is a city and lake port in Kigoma-Ujiji District in Tanzania, on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi...
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Mwene Mbonwean Sultanate of Ujiji or Busonga is a subnational Monarchy in Ujiji town, Kigoma Region, western Tanzania. The seat of the local Sultanate...
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precolonial Africa the region was a source of ivory and slaves. Tabora and Ujiji were Arab staging areas for shipments to the coast. It was visited by the...
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the Arabian Barwani tribe. With the help of Tippu Tip he became Sultan of Ujiji. At one time he dominated the trade of Tanganyika, before being defeated...
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Kagera is an administrative ward in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 24.3 km2 (9.4 sq mi), and has an average...
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Urban District (Mjini District). Based on the population of the Kigoma-Ujiji Municipal Council. Based on the population of the Dodoma Municipal Council...
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Livingstone's journal also confirms Ujiji as the location, with an entry the day before the meeting reading "At dawn, off and go to Ujiji", a town he knew well. Livingstone...
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Henry Morton Stanley visited 14 days after their first historic meeting at Ujiji in Tanzania), the presidential palace and the source of the southernmost...
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Chuma and Susi (section Mikindani to Ujiji)
arrived in Zanzibar in 1871 and recruited a large expedition. This reached Ujiji around the end of October and announced his arrival with gunfire, alarming...
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This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, an area equivalent to modern-day Rwanda and Burundi...
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Gungu is an administrative ward in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 10.2 km2 (3.9 sq mi), and has an average...
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German spellings of the local names for a while, such as "Udjidji" for Ujiji and "Kilimandscharo" for Mount Kilimanjaro, "Kleinaruscha" for Arusha-Chini...
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Wagoma in Kigoma before resettling in Ujiji and its environs, where they formed a tribal Confederacy in Ujiji known as Wamanyema. The Wagoma crossed...
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Majengo, Kigoma (redirect from Majengo, Kigoma-Ujiji)
Majengo is an administrative ward in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 1.1 km2 (0.42 sq mi), and has an average...
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The district lies north of the city of Kigoma-Ujiji. Uvinza District, to the west and south of Ujiji, was split off from the Kigoma District in 1 July...
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the risks associated to malaria in this part of Africa. After visiting Ujiji and the site where David Livingstone and Henry Stanley met, Palin boards...
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Morton Stanley had found the name of "Tanganika", when he travelled to Ujiji in 1876. He wrote that the locals were not sure about its meaning and conjectured...
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unknown Lake regions of Central Africa." They would travel from Zanzibar to Ujiji along a caravan route established in 1825 by an Arab slave and ivory merchant...
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were organized into a separate kingdom, Bujiji (Swahili Ujiji, same as the Swahili town of Ujiji near Kigoma), and formed part of Buha (Uha, Ha territory)...
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Swahili slave and ivory trader Rumaliza dominated Tanganyika from his base at Ujiji on the old slave route that led from Stanley Falls up the Lualaba River...
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September 1916, the German Central Railway from the coast at Dar es Salaam to Ujiji was fully under British control. With Lettow-Vorbeck confined to the southern...
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September 1916, the German Central Railway from the coast at Dar es Salaam to Ujiji had been taken over by the British. As the German forces had been restricted...
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Kongwa District & Mpwapwa District Bantu Goma people Kigoma Region Kigoma-Ujiji District & Kigoma District Bantu Gorowa Dodoma Region Kondoa District Cushite...
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airport in western Tanzania serving Kigoma. It is located at the east area of Ujiji. The government of Tanzania is planning to improve the airport. The Kigoma...
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Heru/Oha Nkalinzi/Manyovu Bushingo/Ushingo Muhambwe Buyungu Luguru/Ruguru Ujiji/Bujiji Bushubi Buhaya: Kyamutwara later Lesser Kyamtwara Kiziba Ihangiro...
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tropical diseases. Stanley found David Livingstone on 10 November 1871 in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. He later claimed to have...
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