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  2. History of Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    In the course of these expeditions, in 1879 a station was founded in Kigoma on the eastern bank of Lake Tanganyika, soon to be followed by the station of Mpala on the opposite western bank. Both stations were founded in the name of the Comite D'Etudes Du Haut Congo, a predecessor organization of the Congo Free State. German colonial interests ...

  3. Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    The Southern African Development Community consists of 16 nations, including all countries of southern Africa plus Tanzania and the DRC from the Great Lakes. [142] Tanzania is a founding member of SADC in 1994, as well as its predecessor the Frontline States (FLS), from 1960 to 1994. While FLS aimed to end apartheid, its successor SADC has the ...

  4. Timeline of Tanzanian history - Wikipedia

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    The Arusha Agreement is signed between the European Union and the East African states of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. [53] 1970: 1 July: Tanzania's first university, the University of Dar es Salaam is founded from the split of the University of East Africa into three national universities. [44] [54] 1971: 1 January: The Arusha Agreement is ...

  5. German East Africa Company - Wikipedia

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    First territory ("Petersland") claimed by the German East Africa Company 1885. The German East Africa Company (German: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft, abbreviated DOAG) was a chartered colonial organization that brought about the establishment of German East Africa, a territory which eventually comprised the areas of modern Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

  6. Name Year Colonial power Morocco: 1912 France [1]: Libya: 1911 Italy [2]: Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3]: Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 ...

  7. List of kingdoms and empires in African history - Wikipedia

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    There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".

  8. Kilwa Sultanate - Wikipedia

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    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 height, stretched over the entire length of the Swahili Coast. According to the legend, it was founded in the 10th century by Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi, [1] a Persian prince of Shiraz. [2]

  9. Rhapta - Wikipedia

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    Rhapta (Ancient Greek: Ῥάπτα [1] and Ῥαπτά [2]) was an emporion said to be on the coast of Southeast Africa, first described in the 1st century CE.Its location has not been firmly identified, although there are a number of plausible candidate sites.