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History and Facts of Zanzibar! Spice Producing Countries in Africa
Zanzibar is a region in east africa, which some may think is a sovereign state, but in reality the territory of zanzibar is part of the state of tanzania. Although this region has its own system of government and president. More details about zanzibar, here's the article.
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of the tanzanian state. A semi-autonomous region is an internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of self-governing autonomy under the national government. Autonomous regions differ from federated constituent units in that they have unique powers for their circumstances that are usually geographically different from those of a part of a principal or parent state.
An example of a constituent region is as in the video about the country of aruba. Zanzibar was previously one of the protectorate territories of the british empire, after the end of the british protectorate period, this region was once a country with a constitutional monarchical system within the british commonwealth.
Then after the zanzibar revolution the monarchical system was replaced with the people's republic of zanzibar and pemba It didn't last long before this republic then merged with the mainland handicraft and became a united republic with tanzania. Where zanzibar remains a semi-autonomous region. The zanzibar region itself is one of the islands in the Indian Ocean.
Located on the swahili coast, its territory is adjacent to the territory of tanganyika or mainland Tanzania. Having an area of 2,462 square kilometers, the island is separated from mainland Tanzania by a 56-kilometer-wide canal. Sabagai autonomous regions of zanzibar have their own capital. Its capital is in zanzibar city which is also the largest city in the region.
Although its historic center is in the 'City of Stone', which was once a coastal trading center along the East coast of Africa. The 'Stone City of Zanzibar' was carved as a World Heritage Site in 2000. In addition to being a spice country Zanzibar is the oldest Swahili city in the world that is still functioning. Swahili culture has been going on for a long time in the East African region, precisely on the swahili coast.
The areas directly adjacent to the sea include Tanzania, Kenya Uganda Mozambique and also some islands adjacent to Zanzibar, During the historical era slavery in Zanzibar was rife for many years until 1873 when.
Sultan Barghash was forced by the British to declare that the slave trade was illegal under the threat of bombing by the Navy There was not a single group specifically responsible for the Zanzibar slave trade like the Arabs who were the great merchants of Zanzibar, the Europeans who used slaves to work on their plantations, while the African rulers sold the captives claimed in battle.
Zanzibar is inhabited by about 1.4 million inhabitants The majority of the population of Zanzibar is muslim with a percentage reaching 99%. The official languages spoken in this region are Swahili, Arabic and English. Zanzibar also had their own government known as the revolutionary government of Zanzibar, which consisted of a revolutionary council and a house of representatives.
The region is headed by a president who also serves as a government member. The main industries of zanzibar are spices, products from the raffia tree, and tourism. In particular, these islands produce cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and black pepper.
Cloves in this region originally came from the Maluku islands, Indonesia. Cloves were introduced in zanzibar by the sultan of oman at the beginning of the 19th century. The zanzibar region, especially on pemba island was once the world's leading producer of cloves. For this reason, the zanzibar archipelago, along with the mafia island and tanzania, is sometimes referred to locally as the spice archipelago, a term borrowed from the moluccan archipelago in indonesia.
History of zanzibar. History begins in this region since, the islands of the zanzibar region became a base for traders who sailed between the great lakes of Africa, the Somali Peninsula, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and the Indian Subcontinent. The people of Oman and Yemen settled in what is now the city of zanzibar, they made this city a point for trading with cities on the coast of swahili.
Vasco da gama's visit in 1498 marked the beginning of European influence in the region. In the years 1503 to 1504, zanzibar became part of the portuguese kingdom when the captain of the ruy lourenço ravasco marques landed and demanded and received tribute from the sultan, in exchange for peace.
Originally the region became part of a portuguese province in arab, ethiopia and was taken care of by a governor-general. Around 1571, zanzibar became part of the western division of the portuguese empire and was ruled from mozambique. However, the portuguese presence in this region was still relatively limited, so the administration was in the hands of local leaders and pre-existing power structures.
This system lasted until 1631. The local elites invited the merchant princes of Oman to settle in zanzibar in the first half of the nineteenth century, and preferred them to the Portuguese. Beginning in 1886, great Britain and Germany planned to gain part of the zanzibar sultanate for their own kingdom.
Control over zanzibar eventually reached the hands of the british empire, as part of a political push that was a 19th-century movement to abolish the slave trade. Zanzibar was the center of the arab slave trade, and in 1822, the British consul in muscat pressured the sultan said to end the slave trade. In 1890 zanzibar became a protectorate of england, not as a british colony.
This status meant that zanzibbar continued to be under the sovereignty of the sultan of zanzibar. From 1890 to 1913, traditional viziers ruled their territory supervised by advisers appointed by the British colonial office. on December 10, 1963, the protectorate that had existed in zanzibar since 1890 was ended by the British. Great Britain did not grant independence to zanzibar, because it never had sovereignty over zanzibar.
With the zanzibar-british empire act of 1963, the british ended the protectorate and made provisions for full self-government in zanzibar as an independent state in the commonwealth. After the protectorate was abolished, zanzibar became a constitutional monarchy within the commonwealth under the Sultan.
But this state of affairs was short-lived, as the sultan and the democratically elected government were overthrown on January 12, 1964 in the zanzibar revolution led by john okello, a Ugandan citizen who organized and led the revolution with his followers on the island. The sultanate was replaced by the people's republic of zanzibar and pemba, a socialist government led by the afro-shirazi party.
Several thousand ethnic Arabs and Indian civilians were killed and thousands more were detained or expelled, their property confiscated or destroyed. The arabs and indians, fled the island as a result of the revolution. The film Africa Addio in 1966 documented the violence and massacre of unarmed ethnic Arab civilians.
In April 1964, the republic of zanzibar joined the mainland. The united republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar soon changed its name, combining the two names, as a united republic of Tanzania, in which zanzibar remained a semi-autonomous region. Despite joining the tanganyika, the zanzibar retained the revolutionary council and the house of representatives.
Until 1992, the region still ran a one-party system and had power over domestic issues. That's the history about the zanzibar region, and to get to know more about this region, here are 20 facts about the country of zanzibar.