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Unyamwezi is a
historical region in what is now Tanzania,
around the
modern city of
Tabora to the
south of Lake
Victoria and east of Lake Tanganyika....
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refer to the
Sukuma as 'people of the north'.
Their homeland is
called Unyamwezi, and they
speak the
language Kinyamwezi, but many also
speak Swahili or...
- Arab traders, and
rivals of
Mirambo for the
control of the
trade across Unyamwezi.
These Arabs had
powerful allies in
Zanzibar on the coast. For most of...
- vegetation. As with the Nyamwezi, all
members of the five
groups in
Greater Unyamwezi identified themselves as
Wanyamwezi to
those outside of the "greater"...
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humanist Filippo Pigafetta. The name
Monemugi was
erroneously applied to
Unyamwezi in modern-day
Tanzania near Lake Malawi.
Mwene Muji was
formed just after...
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impacts of large-scale
labour migration on "labour reservoirs" such as
Unyamwezi and
Usukuma were
often devastating.
Beginning in 1888 the
Usambara Railway...
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Three missionaries,
confined to the
coastal belt,
heard of the
region of
Unyamwezi in the
northwest of what is now
Tanzania and
exaggerated its size to include...
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their setbacks, they
continued their destructive path
through Uvinza,
Unyamwezi, Uzumbwa, Utambara, Urangwa, Uyofu, and Uzinja,
eventually reaching the...
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Mbogwe in Usumbwa,
where they
fought against the
renowned Mirambo of
Unyamwezi. The
current king of the
Ngoni is Zwangendaba's great-great-grandson,...
- the mid-18th century,
traders dressed as
Arabs although coming from the
Unyamwezi region of what is now
Tanzania were
involved in
trading for
ivory as far...
