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The main town and economic centre is Stone Town on the actual island of Zanzibar.

Zanzibar's main industries are spices (including nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper) and tourism. Zanzibar is also the only home of the Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey.

1 History

Except for a brief period starting on December 19, 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey, Zanzibar has never been an independent nation or country in its own right. It became a part of the overseas holdings of the SultanA sultan Arabic ) is an Islamic monarch ruling under the terms of shariah''. The title carries moral weight and religious authority, as the ruler's role was defined in the Quran. The sultan however was not a religious teacher himself. In the Byzantine Emp of OmanThe Sultanate of Oman is a country in the southwestern part of Asia, on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates in the northwest, Saudi Arabia in the west, and Yemen in the southwest. The coast is formed by the Ar in 1698Events January 4 Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. June 19 Volcano of Carguarazon erupts in the Andes and causes a rain of fish August 25 Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow general Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion 34. This was after an even earlier Portuguese period dating from 1503Events January 20 Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World. April 21 Battle of Cerignola. Aragonese forces under Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba defeat the French under the Duc de Nemours, who is killed. Considered to be the. The British took over and Zanzibar became a protectorateProtectorate of Oliver Cromwell See The Protectorate. 19th Century revival of term The British revived the term after 1815, in ordering and validating their de facto occupation of Corfu and the seven Ionian islands during the last days of Napoleonic hegem of the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly. The British appointed first Viziers (from 1890 to 1913, and then British residents from 1913 to 1963. Shortly after gaining independence in late 1963 it was joined to the mainland state of Tanganyika to form Tanzania on April 26, 1964, which it remains a part of to this day.

Zanzibar was a centre for the eastern slave trade during the 17th- 19th centuries, when it was ruled by the Sultan of Oman. The British government forced the cessation of slave trading in the late 19th century under the British-controlled Omani sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.

Until Kenya's independence in 1963, when it became part of Kenya, Mombasa was governed by Zanzibar.