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Sultanate of Zanzibar
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Date 1896 - 1964

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Major states, peoples, and trade routes of eastern Africa, c. 1850
Video thumbnail image shows British forces in front of the sultan's palace after the bombardment during the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War.
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Major Events

Zanzibar
Anglo-Zanzibar War

Key People

Saʿīd ibn Sulṭān
ruler of Muscat, Oman, and Zanzibar
Tippu Tib
Arab trader
Barghash
sultan of Zanzibar
Sir John Kirk, watercolour by A.H. Kirk, 1915; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir John Kirk
British official