Zanj Empire
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The Zanj Empire was a 19th-century political formation established by the Omani sultanate in the lands on the East African coast adjacent to Zanzibar. Known for its slave-trading activities in conjunction with the local Swahili, at its peak its reach stretched as far as Eastern Congo. Eventually, the "Empire" collapsed when the British, intent on ending the slave trade, overtook it and incorporated it into the British empire in 1896.
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- Periplus Maris Erythraei (translated and edited by Lionel Casson). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
- Reusch, Richard. History of East Africa. New York: Ungar, 1961.
- Gervase, Matthew (edited by Matthew Gervase and Oliver Roland). The East African Coast until the Coming of the Portuguese, History of East Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963.
