Kwale (Kenya)
| Kwale (Kenya) | |||
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| county | Kwale County | ||
| Residents | 4200 pop. | ||
| Coordinates | 4 ° 11 ′ S , 39 ° 27 ′ E | ||
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Kwale is a small town in Kenya and the capital of the county of the same name . It is located about 30 km southwest of Mombasa . The place has 4200 inhabitants (as of 1999).
At Kwale there was also a prehistoric settlement that flourished around the year 250. The place was first excavated in the mid-1960s. It is the eponymous site for the so-called Kwale Ware and a related cultural group that was found at various sites on the east coast of Africa . It is the earliest Iron Age culture in this area.
literature
- R. Soper: Kwale: an Early Iron Age Site in South Eastern Kenya. In: Azania 2. 1967, pp. 1-16