Tanzania Guide

Dar es Salaam (Arabic house of Peace) – Tanzania’s administrative capital (the seat of government), located in the eastern part of the country on the Indian Ocean, the largest port city, the administrative center of Pwani region, in 2003 I lived about 2.5 million inhabitants.

Dar es Salam was founded on the spot Mzizima village in 1862, the sultan of Zanzibar Madżida (Seyyida Majid), who built his palace here. The first Europeans who came here in 1859 at the latest, even in the days of the original village, was Albert Roscher. The dynamic development of the city and the port after 1887, together with the assumption that the place of the German East Africa Company. In the years 1890-1918 was the capital of German East Africa.

In 1981, the capital of Tanzania, officially moved to Dodomy.