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Close ✕Kilwa Kisiwani
An island settlement off the southern Tanzanian coast that was among the dominant Swahili trading powers of the Indian Ocean between roughly the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, minting…
-9.0, 39.5 · approximate · c. 9th - 19th century CE
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- A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places
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- node on Indian Ocean maritime trade network — Kilwa's monumental mosque-building and its own minted coinage rise together, showing religious and commercial institutionalisation as one process.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
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