Ujiji

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Ujiji
Ujiji (Tanzania)
Ujiji
Ujiji
Coordinates 4 ° 55 ′  S , 29 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 55 ′  S , 29 ° 41 ′  E
Basic data
Country Tanzania

region

Kigoma
Memorial at the meeting point of Livingstone and Stanley
Memorial at the meeting point of Livingstone and Stanley

Ujiji (pronunciation [ ˈudʒidʒi ]) is the oldest city in western Tanzania , 10 km south of Kigoma on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika . Traditional residents were the Vajiji . Islamic merchants settled here, as the city was an important base for goods and slave trade from the Congo. In the German colonial times the place was called Station Udschidschi and was occupied by the 6th Company of the Schutztruppe for German East Africa .

Ujiji military station. Postcard from 1902

In Ujiji, Burton and Speke were the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika in February 1858 . Stanley found Livingstone here in November 1871 , which Dr. Livingstone Memorial commemorates.

In 1878 the London Missionary Society founded the first mission station on Lake Tanganyika here.

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