Empire1856 – 1964 · 108 years

Sultanate of Zanzibar

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Sultanate of Zanzibar, also known as the Zanzibar Sultanate, was an East African Muslim state controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar, in place between 1856 and 1964. 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.

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Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1880
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire4

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Abushiri Revolt1888–90
Major conflict
Zanzibar Revolution1964
Major conflict
Tippu Tip's Conquests1860–90
Significant
Anglo-Zanzibar War1896
Significant

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Cite as: Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856 – 1964). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-zanzibar-sultanate · Sources & methodology