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EU: Gezicht op een stad op Zanzibar (1880)
1880 Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
A general view over Stone Town, the historic heart of Zanzibar, captured in 1880. At the time the island was a major center of the East African trade in spices, ivory, and cloves, ruled by the Sultanate of Zanzibar from its coral-stone palaces along the waterfront.
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