Back سلطنة زنجبار Arabic Sultanatu de Zanzíbar AST Zənzibar sultanlığı AZ زنگیبار سولطانلیغی AZB Султанат Занзыбар BE-X-OLD Занзибар (султанат) Bulgarian জাঞ্জিবার সালতানাত Bengali/Bangla Sultaned Zanzibar BR Sultanat de Zanzíbar Catalan Zanzibarský sultanát Czech
Sultanate of Zanzibar | |||||||||
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| 1856–1964 | |||||||||
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| Anthem: National Anthem of Zanzibar (until 1890) National March for the Sultan of Zanzibar (1911–1964) | |||||||||
![Sultanate of Zanzibar in pink[clarification needed]](view_image.php?q=Sultanate_of_Zanzibar&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Omani_Empire_2.png) Sultanate of Zanzibar in pink[clarification needed] | |||||||||
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| Capital | Stone Town | ||||||||
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| Religion | Ibadi Islam[1] | ||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy (1856–1963) Constitutional monarchy (1963–1964) | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1856–1870 | Majid bin Said (first) | ||||||||
• 1963–1964 | Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Said (last) | ||||||||
| Chief Minister | |||||||||
• 1961 | Geoffrey Lawrence | ||||||||
• 1961–1964 | Muhammad Hamadi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 19 October 1856 | |||||||||
| 1 July 1890 | |||||||||
| 27 August 1896 | |||||||||
| 12 January 1964 | |||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1964[2] | 300,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Zanzibari ryal[3] (1882–1908) Zanzibari rupee (1908–1935) East African shilling (1935–1964) Indian rupee and Maria Theresa thaler also circulated | ||||||||
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The Sultanate of Zanzibar (Swahili: Usultani wa Zanzibar, Arabic: سلطنة زنجبار, romanized: Sulṭanat Zanjībār), also known as the Zanzibar Sultanate,[1] was an East African Muslim state controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar, in place between 1856 and 1964.[4] The Sultanate's territories varied over time, and after a period of decline, the state had sovereignty over only the Zanzibar Archipelago and a 16-kilometre-wide (10 mi) strip along the Kenyan coast, with the interior of Kenya constituting the British Kenya Colony and the coastal strip administered as a de facto part of that colony.
Under an agreement reached on 8 October 1963, the Sultan of Zanzibar relinquished sovereignty over his remaining territory on the mainland, and on 12 December 1963, Kenya officially obtained independence from the British. On 12 January 1964, revolutionaries, led by the African Afro-Shirazi Party, overthrew the mainly Arab government. Jamshid bin Abdullah, the last sultan, was deposed and lost sovereignty over Zanzibar, marking the end of the Sultanate, and resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands of Arabs.
- ^ a b Gascoigne, Bamber (2001). "History of Zanzibar". HistoryWorld. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
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- ^ Ndzovu, Hassan J. (2014). "Historical Evolution of Muslim Politics in Kenya from the 1840s to 1963". Muslims in Kenyan Politics: Political Involvement, Marginalization, and Minority Status. Northwestern University Press. pp. 17–50. ISBN 9780810130029. JSTOR j.ctt22727nc.7.