Left: Flag of Sultan Fumobakari (1890) Right: Flag as a British protectorate (1893–1920)
Map showing the location of Witu on the Indian Ocean coast
Status
c. 1810–1885: Independent state 1885–1890: German protectorate 1890–1905/1923: British protectorate
Capital
Witu
Common languages
Swahili · Arabic
Religion
Islam
Government
Monarchy
Mafulme
• 1810s - 1848
Bwana Mataka
• July 1895 – 1923
Fumo `Umar ibn Ahmad
History
• Established
c. 1810[1]
• Disestablished
1905/1923
Succeeded by
Kenya Colony
Wituland (also Witu, Vitu, Witu Protectorate or Swahililand) was a territory of approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi) in East Africa centered on the town of Witu, just inland from the Indian Ocean port of Lamu, north of the mouth of the Tana River in what is now Kenya.
^Ylvisaker, Margeret (1982). "THE IVORY TRADE IN THE LAMU AREA, 1600–1870". Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde. 28 (28): 221–231. JSTOR 41409885.
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