Lindi Historic Town (''Mji wa kale wa Lindi'' in
Swahili
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* Swahili language, a Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes
* Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa
* Swahili culture
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) is a historic area located in the present day small city of
Lindi,
Lindi Municipal District of
Lindi Region
Lindi Region (''Mkoa wa Lindi'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Sri Lanka. The regional capital is the m ...
in
Tanzania. The historic part of town covers the wards of
Makonde, Ndoro, Mikundi,
Mitandi
Mitandi is an administrative ward in Lindi Municipal District of Lindi Region in Tanzania
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and
Msanjihili wards. The area has building from Swahili, Arab and German tradition reflecting the settlement's history.
Lindi was a major part of the
Swahili civilisation, whom established the town in the eleventh century and conducted trade along the coast with other people living near the Indian Ocean. The Swahili town's previous name has never been documented. It may have been called for the native Mwinyi's forefathers. The Omanis ruled the local populace and used the region to trade and transport ivory and slaves to the international market.
[Lerise, Fred, et al. “Background to Lindi Region.” The Case of Lindi and Its Region, Southern Tanzania, International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001, pp. 2–5. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep01760.4. Accessed 21 Aug. 2022.]
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Lindi Region