Kilwachronik
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The rich city of Kilwa , illustration from Civitates orbis terrarum vol. I by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg , 1572
The Kilwachronik (Arabic: Kitab al-Sulaw ) is a chronicle of the East African city of Kilwa Kisiwani written around 1520 . It is a list of kings. The chronicle has been preserved in two versions. The Portuguese historian João de Barros (1496–1570) included them in his Décadas da Ásia , published in 1552 . A second, longer version comes from a copy found in the possession of the Sultan of Zanzibar in the 19th century . Both versions differ in important points, so that the reconstruction of Kilwa's history is in places quite uncertain.
literature
- Peter Garlake: Africa and its Kingdoms. Berlin, Darmstadt, Vienna 1975, p. 88.