EU: Exterieur van het beschadigde paleis van de sultan van Zanzibar (1897)

1897 Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

The damaged exterior of the Sultan's palace in Zanzibar's Stone Town, photographed in 1897, a year after the British bombardment that destroyed much of the building. The brief conflict of August 1896 is regarded as the shortest recorded war in history.

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