Tanzania Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
country in East Africa
About Tanzania
Tanzania is probably one of the oldest known continuously inhabited areas on Earth; fossil remains of humans and pre-human hominids have been found dating back over two million years. More recently, Tanzania is believed to have been populated by hunter-gatherer communities, probably Cushitic and Khoisan speaking people. About 2,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people began to arrive from western Africa in a series of migrations. Later, Nilotic pastoralists arrived, and continued to immigrate into the area through to the 18th century. Travellers and merchants from thePersian Gulfand Western India have visited the East African coast since early in the first millennium CE. Islam was practised on theSwahili Coastas early as the eighth or ninth century CE. The Swahili Coast eventually grew to enco
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