Ted's Excellent Pictures Taken in Stone Town, Zanzibar
November 2018
Zanzibar Island is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania
- Captured by Portugal in 1503, 5 years after being visited by Vasco da Gama,it was settled by the Portuguese from 1560, until ...
- Oman took over from 1650; made it the capital of Oman(!) in 1840
- Tanganyika, the mainland African trustee territory of Great Britain, achieved independence in 1961
- Zanzibar gained independence in 1962; the Sultan of Oman was deposed in 1964
- The union of Tanzania was created 1963 from the two names Tanganyika + Zanzibar
- It is an "uneasy alliance", with some locals resenting rule from the mainland
(despite being only ~30km offshore from the capital Dar es Salaam)
- Many locals still have close ties to Oman; some still talk about returning to an independent state
Jambo! is the universal Swahili greeting in Zanzibar
Not sure where Mr Bean fits in Zanzibarian culture
Lead singer of Queen born in Stone Town Zanzibar
(as Farrokh Bulsara, with Persian/Indian parentage)
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