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Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Busaidi GCMG (Arabic: جمشيد بن عبد الله البوسعيدي; born 16 September 1929) [1] [2] is a Zanzibari royal who was the last reigning Sultan of Zanzibar. He was deposed in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution , after the United Kingdom gave up its British protectorate .
Jamshid bin Abdullah The sultans of Zanzibar ( Arabic : سلاطين زنجبار ; Swahili : Sultani wa Zanzibar ) were the rulers of the Sultanate of Zanzibar , which was created on 19 October 1856 after the death of Said bin Sultan .
Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown a month later during the Zanzibar Revolution. [30] Jamshid fled into exile, and the Sultanate was replaced by the People's Republic of Zanzibar . In April 1964, the existence of this socialist republic was ended with its union with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar ...
The revolutionaries overthrew of the last Sultan of Zanzibar, Jamshid bin Abdullah. Zanzibar became a Marxist republic overnight, the clove industry was nationalised and the Sultan's Hospital was consequently renamed the Vladmir Illych Lenin Hospital (now known by the politically neutral name of the Coconut Palm Infirmary).
By 1964, the country was a constitutional monarchy ruled by Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah. [9] Zanzibar had a population of around 230,000 Africans —some of whom claimed Persian ancestry and were known locally as Shirazis [ 10 ] —and also contained significant minorities of 50,000 Arabs and 20,000 South Asians, who had long been prominent in ...
Sultan Sayyid Ali bin Hamud Sultan of Zanzibar, abdicated 1911; Sultan Sayyid Jamshid bin Abdullah Sultan of Zanzibar, overthrown 1964 (Zanzibar was later united with Tanganyika, and Tanzania was formed.)
Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar Zanzibar Sultan of Zanzibar: Zanzibar Revolution: 1967 Constantine II of Greece Greece King of Greece: 1967 Greek counter-coup: 1969 Idris of Libya [22] Libya King of Libya: 1969 Libyan coup d'état: 1973 Mohammed Zahir Shah Afghanistan King of Afghanistan: 1973 Afghan coup d'état: 1974 Haile Selassie [23] Ethiopia
However, just a month later, on 12 January 1964 Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was deposed during the Zanzibar Revolution. [8] The Sultan fled into exile, and the Sultanate was replaced by the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba, a socialist government led by the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). Over 20,000 people were killed and refugees, especially ...