Talk:Zanzibar
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Equinox in topic Wider application in the past?
Wider application in the past?
editYule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson dictionary says:
- This name was originally general, and applied widely to the East African coast, at least south of the River Jubb, and as far as the Arab traffic extended. But it was also specifically applied to the island on which the Sultan of Zanzibar now lives (and to which we now generally restrict the name); and this was the case at least since the 15th century, as we see from the Roteiro.