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Tabora

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Tabora (täbō`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 120,000), capital of Tabora region, W central Tanzania. It is a trade and transportation center, connected by rail with Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean, Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, and Mwanza on Lake Victoria. Peanuts, cotton, cattle, tobacco, and other agricultural commodities are shipped. Tabora was founded in 1852 by Arab traders from the Indian Ocean coast and was located at the junction of important caravan routes. It was captured in 1891 by the Germans and became a center of administration of German East Africa German East Africa, former German colony, c.370,000 sq mi (958,300 sq km), E Africa. Dar es Salaam was the capital. German influence emerged in the area in 1884 when Carl Peters, the German explorer, obtained treaties over parts of the territory.
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Other Austrians, such as Alfred Sigl, joined the Schutztruppe (Germany's colonial armed forces); as head-of-station in Tabora, Sigl was instrumental in the appeasement of the East African colony in the interior of Tanzania.
African Art at the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna by Plankensteiner, Barbara / African Arts
SIR: I was provoked to respond to the Letter from Tabora in AR February 2001.
Letters by The Architectural Review
With the two railways in German East Africa now threatened, one gun under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Schonfeld was deployed to cover Tabora along the railway.
World War I: Joint Fires in the East African Campaign by Williams, Peter J. / FA Journal
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