Duty Station Overview
Tabora is the capital of Tanzania's Tabora Region and is classified as a
municipality by the Tanzanian government. It is also the administrative
seat of Tabora Urban District. According to the 2012 census, this
district had a population of 226,999.
History: Beginning in the 1830s, coastal traders increasingly
settled in the region to take advantage of the ivory and slave caravan
trade. Swahili and Omani traders established Kazeh, near present-day
Tabora, in the 1850s. By 1870, Tabora was home to a population of
5,000-10,000 people living in roughly fifty large square houses. These
homes accommodated up to several hundred people each and had inner
courtyards, adjacent garden plots, store rooms, servant quarters and
outhouses for slaves. The town was also surrounded by Nyamwezi villages,
which provided produce and caravan labor.
In this period the Sultan of Zanzibar appointed a representative there.
It was part of the Kingdom of Unyanyembe. By August 1871, one-quarter of
the town was burned when the forces of the Nyamwezi ruler Mirambo
sacked it. Although the German East Africa protectorate was proclaimed
over the region in 1885, as late as 1891 travellers reported it to be a
lawless town, and the German colonial administration did not gain
control of it until later that year. As a major station on the Central
Line it became the most important administrative centre of central
German East Africa.
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In 1916 the colonial garrison had an
emergency mint at Tabora, making some gold pieces as well as large
numbers of crude copper and brass German East African rupie minor coins
Mint marked with a "T". During the Tabora Offensive in the East African
Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo
(Force Publique) under the command of General Charles Tombeur captured
the town on 19 September 1916 after 10 days and nights of heavy
fighting.
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