800 CE – 1520 CE · 1 sites
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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Tanzania
800 CE – 1520 CE
The greatest medieval trading city on the East African coast — an island sultanate whose coral-stone mosques and palaces dominated the Indian Ocean gold trade from the 9th to the 16th century. Ibn Battuta visited in 1331 and called it one of the most beautiful cities in the world.