Bagamoyo
Visited in August 2019
At a glance
- Country
- Tanzania
- Region
- Pwani Region
- Population
- 35,000
- Type
- Town in Tanzania
- Coordinates
- 6.44°S, 38.91°E
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Overview
Bagamoyo (Mji wa Bagamoyo, in Swahili) is a historic coastal town and capital of Bagamoyo District in the Pwani Region of Tanzania. Much of the settlement was founded at the end of the 18th century, though it is an extension of a much older (8th century) Swahili settlement, Kaole. It was chosen as the capital of German East Africa by the German colonial administration and it became one of the most important trading ports for the Germans along the East African coast along the west of the Indian Ocean in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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