This abandoned East African city once controlled the medieval gold trade

[Disir]

Spectacular ruins cluster on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, more than a mile from the coast of modern-day Tanzania. The remnants of a palace and a great mosque, built partly of coral stone, are reminders of the time when the gold trade of east Africa flowed through this tiny island.
During its medieval heyday, Kilwa was the principal port in a string of coastal trading cities that formed along what became known as the Swahili Coast. Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning “coastal dweller” and became the name for the regional language.

Kilwa, the abandoned East African city, once controlled the medieval gold trade

A product of African, Arabian, and Persian cultures, Kilwa was an economic powerhouse that oversaw the flow of gold from its place on the Swahili Coast.

www.nationalgeographic.com

That's an interesting bit of history.

 

[percysunshine]

They survived without Facebook?

 

[Disir]

That's just crazy, right?

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Spectacular ruins cluster on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, more than a mile from the coast of modern-day Tanzania. The remnants of a palace and a great mosque, built partly of coral stone, are reminders of the time when the gold trade of east Africa flowed through this tiny island.
During its medieval heyday, Kilwa was the principal port in a string of coastal trading cities that formed along what became known as the Swahili Coast. Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning “coastal dweller” and became the name for the regional language.

Kilwa, the abandoned East African city, once controlled the medieval gold trade

A product of African, Arabian, and Persian cultures, Kilwa was an economic powerhouse that oversaw the flow of gold from its place on the Swahili Coast.

www.nationalgeographic.com

That's an interesting bit of history.

Can't read it. It gets greyed out and demands I subscribe. Why would I subscribe? From the little I see, its an Arab or Iranian outpost deep in barbaric Africa. Who cares

 

[Disir]

Spectacular ruins cluster on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, more than a mile from the coast of modern-day Tanzania. The remnants of a palace and a great mosque, built partly of coral stone, are reminders of the time when the gold trade of east Africa flowed through this tiny island.
During its medieval heyday, Kilwa was the principal port in a string of coastal trading cities that formed along what became known as the Swahili Coast. Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning “coastal dweller” and became the name for the regional language.

Kilwa, the abandoned East African city, once controlled the medieval gold trade

A product of African, Arabian, and Persian cultures, Kilwa was an economic powerhouse that oversaw the flow of gold from its place on the Swahili Coast.

www.nationalgeographic.com

That's an interesting bit of history.

Can't read it. It gets greyed out and demands I subscribe. Why would I subscribe? From the little I see, its an Arab or Iranian outpost deep in barbaric Africa. Who cares

That's weird. It's National Geographic. I can see it for free. Unless they have a limited amount of articles you can read and you have read them.

I get the fact that you wouldn't care but this it is in the section on Africa.......


Just saying.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Spectacular ruins cluster on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, more than a mile from the coast of modern-day Tanzania. The remnants of a palace and a great mosque, built partly of coral stone, are reminders of the time when the gold trade of east Africa flowed through this tiny island.
During its medieval heyday, Kilwa was the principal port in a string of coastal trading cities that formed along what became known as the Swahili Coast. Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning “coastal dweller” and became the name for the regional language.

Kilwa, the abandoned East African city, once controlled the medieval gold trade

A product of African, Arabian, and Persian cultures, Kilwa was an economic powerhouse that oversaw the flow of gold from its place on the Swahili Coast.

www.nationalgeographic.com

That's an interesting bit of history.

Can't read it. It gets greyed out and demands I subscribe. Why would I subscribe? From the little I see, its an Arab or Iranian outpost deep in barbaric Africa. Who cares

That's weird. It's National Geographic. I can see it for free. Unless they have a limited amount of articles you can read and you have read them.

I get the fact that you wouldn't care but this it is in the section on Africa.......


Just saying.

We all know Arabs ruled that part of the world at that time. They are of no importance to the world

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Here's how it looks after 2 seconds

 

[Disir]

That's weird. I don't have a subscription either.