Antiquities Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism [1]
Architecture
Architectural styles
Swahili
National Historic Sites of Tanzania
Official name
Ujiji Historic Town
Type
Cultural
Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania and is located in Kigoma-Ujiji District of Kigoma Region.[2] Originally a Swahili settlement and then an Arab slave trading post by the mid-nineteenth century nominally under the Sultanate of Zanzibar,[3] the town is the oldest in western Tanzania. In 1900, the population was estimated at 10,000 and in 1967 about 41,000.[4] The site is a registered National Historic Site.[5]
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