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EU: Exterieur van het beschadigde paleis van de sultan van Zanzibar (1896)
1896 Zanzibar City, Tanzania
The damaged palace of the Sultan of Zanzibar is shown in this 1896 photograph, taken in the aftermath of the Anglo-Zanzibar War, a brief conflict in which British naval bombardment destroyed much of the sultan's palace complex in Zanzibar City.
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