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Kilwa Kisiwani

Medieval Swahili coast city-state and Indian Ocean gold-trade port, with coral-stone mosques and a cliff-top palace.

Dated events and their evidence

• 900 CE mainstream
  island settlement founded (early Swahili trading town) source
• 1131 CE mainstream
  earliest phase of the Great Mosque of Kilwa built source
• 1310 CE mainstream
  apex under the Mahdali dynasty; Husuni Kubwa palace and mosque expansion source
• 1505 CE mainstream
  sacked by the Portuguese; long decline begins source

Where

8.9600° S, 39.5128° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.2307/3171745
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilwa_Kisiwani

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