CULTURETECHLENSZanzibar
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Combined Graph record U-01402 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0077. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Zanzibar is an archipelago in Tanzania whose historic core, the Stone Town of Zanzibar, is a UNESCO World Heritage site located on a promontory on the western side of Unguja island; UNESCO describes Stone Town as an outstanding example of a Swahili trading town reflecting a fusion of African, Arab, Indian and European cultures, and states that Zanzibar has great symbolic importance in the suppression of slavery as one of the main slave-trading ports in East Africa (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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Zanzibar is an archipelago in Tanzania whose historic core, the Stone Town of Zanzibar, is a UNESCO World Heritage site located on a promontory on the western side of Unguja island; UNESCO describes Stone Town as an outstanding example of a Swahili trading town reflecting a fusion of African, Arab, Indian and European cultures, and states that Zanzibar has great symbolic importance in the suppression of slavery as one of the main slave-trading ports in East Africa (fetched in full
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- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/173 (verification source · master store)
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Zanzibar is an archipelago in Tanzania whose historic core, the Stone Town of Zanzibar, is a UNESCO World Heritage site located on a promontory on the western side of Unguja island; UNESCO describes Stone Town as an outstanding example of a Swahili trading town reflecting a fusion of African, Arab, Indian and European cultures, and states that Zanzibar has great symbolic importance in the suppression of slavery as one of the main slave-trading ports in East Africa (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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