HISTORY OF DAR-ES-SALAAM
In the 19th century, Mzizima was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of Indian ocean trade routes. in 1865, sultan of Zanzibar began building a new city very close to Mzizima and named it Dar-es-salaam.The name Dar-es-salaam means Heaven of peace. Dar-es-salaam fell into decline after sultan's death in 1870, but then it was revived in 1887 when the German East African company established a station there.
The town's growth was facilitated by it's role as the administrative and commercial center of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the railway line in the early 1900's.
German East African company was captured by the British during World War one and from then on it was referred as TANGANYIKA.
Dar-es-salaam was retained as the territory's administrative and commercial center, under British indirect rule ( where Europeans lived near Oyster Bay and Africans lived near Kariakoo and Ilala) areas developed at a distance from the city center.
When Tanganyika got independence in the 1961 the name changed to Tanzania because Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged together.
GEOGRAPHY OF DAR-ES-SALAAM
Dar-es-salaam is located at 6 degrees and 48' south, 39 degrees and 17' east.
The city is divided in to three parts i) Ilala ii) Kinondoni
iii) Temeke.
POPULATION OF DAR ES SALAAM
YEAR POPULATION
1925 30,000
1948 69,000
1957 129,000
1972 396,000
2005 2,456,100
2012 4,364,541
