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  2. Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    Zanzibar [a] is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.

  3. Ministry of Finance and Planning (Tanzania) - Wikipedia

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    The transformation of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs into the Ministry of Finance, with the concurrent creation of a new ministry called the Ministry of Planning and Investment, represents a significant restructuring in the governance and management of Tanzania's economic and financial affairs.

  4. Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 13 December 2022, at 11:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Zanzibar City - Wikipedia

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    In 1592, the first English ship arrived in port. In 1824, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman established the capital of his kingdom in the city. [9] The city was a high place of slavery, one of the main ports of East Africa for the slave trade. The famous slave trader Tippu Tip lived there.

  6. Zanzibar Archipelago - Wikipedia

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    The Zanzibar Archipelago Unguja and Pemba Islands. The Zanzibar Archipelago (Funguvisiwa la Zanzibar, in Swahili, Arabic: أرخبيل زنجبار) is a group of islands off the coast of mainland Tanzania in the sea of Zanj.

  7. History of Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    Zanzibarians seen in 1685 by Alain Manesson Mallet . Zanzibar has been inhabited, perhaps not continuously, since the Paleolithic period. A 2005 excavation at Kuumbi Cave in southeastern Zanzibar found heavy duty stone tools that showed occupation of the site at least 22,000 years ago. [1]

  8. Ng'ambo - Wikipedia

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    Until the mid 19th Century, Ng'ambo was a small community of African slaves. It then began to grow, and by 1895 it comprised 15 wards and was home to 15,000 people. [3] By 1922 its population was twice that of nearby Stone Town, and by the time of independence from Britain in 1964 it housed 80,000 people.

  9. Stone Town - Wikipedia

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    Stonetown of Zanzibar (Arabic: مدينة زنجبار الحجرية, romanized: madīnat Zanjibār al-ḥajariyya), also known as Mji Mkongwe (Swahili for 'old town'), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania.