Ujiji
Sign in to saveUjiji 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 slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar, In 1900, the population was estimated at 10,000 and in 1967 about 41,000. The site is a registered National Historic Site.
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cached 1464h agoKey facts
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.name
- Ujiji
- Ancient site.image
- Swahili House in Kasingirima Ward, Ujiji.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Swahili house in Ujiji
- Ancient site.map_type
- Tanzania
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Kigoma-Ujiji District, Kigoma Region,
- Ancient site.built
- 18th Century
- Ancient site.cultures
- Manyema, Jiji, Ha, Swahili and Arab
- Ancient site.architectural_styles
- Swahili
- Ancient site.condition
- Endangered
- Ancient site.ownership
- Tanzanian Government
- Ancient site.management
- Antiquities Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism
- Ancient site.designation1
- NHST
- Ancient site.designation1_offname
- Ujiji Historic Town
- Ancient site.designation1_type
- Cultural
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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 slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar, In 1900, the population was estimated at 10,000 and in 1967 about 41,000. The site is a registered National Historic Site.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ujiji” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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