Swahili coast
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The Swahili coast is a coastal area of East Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean and inhabited by the Swahili people. It includes Sofala; Mombasa, Gede, Pate Island, Lamu, and Malindi; and Dar es Sala
A 1572 depiction of the city of Kilwa from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum.
Zanzibar slave market in 1860, by Edwin Stocqueler
Stone Town is the Zanzibar Archipelago's main city
Houses are often decorated with carved door frames
Swahili people
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The Swahili people comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area encompassing the East African coast across southern Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and
Swahili coast
…The Swahili coast (Swahili: Pwani ya Waswahili) is a coastal area of East Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean and inhabited by the Swahili people. It includes Sofala (located in Mozambique); Mombasa, Gede, Pate Island, Lamu, and Malindi (in Kenya); and Dar es Salaam and Kilwa (in Tanzania). In…
Swahili women in gala dress, late 1800s
Swahili Arabic script on a one-pysar coin from Zanzibar, c. 1299 AH (1882 CE)
Swahili Arabic script on a carved wooden doorway at Lamu in Kenya
Swahili Arabic script on wooden door in Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya