Tabora

Tabora is a city of the North-West of the Tanzania. It is the principal city of the area of Tabora, the most extended from the country. In 2002, its population was evaluated with: 128000 inhabitants, the district of Tabora Urban cash 188.000 inhabitants. The Nyamwezi form the principal ethnos group of the city.

History

The city was founded under the name of Kazeh by the Arab merchants at the beginning of the Années 1850. It quickly becomes an important center of trade of slaves, impossible to circumvent on the caravan road between the Lac Tanganyika and the coast. The city then sees passing the majority of the European explorers of the time, in particular Livingstone and Stanley, Burton and Speke. In its writings, Stanley evokes a powerful city at least cash thousand houses and five thousand inhabitants.

Although the German Eastern Africa was instituted in 1885, the city is really controlled by the new colonizers only towards the end of the year 1891. The city takes then the name of Weidmannsheil and becomes one of the principal administrative centers of the colony.

During the First World War and with the Countryside of East Africa, the troops Belgian of the General Tombeur captures the city on September 19th, 1916 following violent one engagements.

Under British colonization , Tabora becomes mainly a railway crossroads, stopover on the Central Line Dar Es Salaam - Kigoma (reached the city in 1912, finished in 1914), then starting point of the railway of Mwanza (construction of 1923 with 1928). It is there that Julius Nyerere carries out its years of college. The city preserves this function of center of transport after independence, also playing the part of administrative center for the area.

Geography

The city is located in full center of the Tanzanian plate, at an altitude of 1200 meters. The surroundings are practically deprived of relief, except for some ic hills Volcan (in particular the Collines of Igwizi, to approximately 80 km in the west. The suburbs of the city are largely cultivated, mainly of the Maïs, the sweet potatoes or of the Tabac, but the outputs are weak because of the very bad condition of the network of irrigation.

Climate

Precipitations vary between 650 and 850 Misters the end of the winter (September-October) is the driest period and sees the content water to fall to 25%.

Transport

  • the city is particularly well connected to the remainder of the country by railway way. The Line Exchange connects it to Kigoma and Mpanda in the west, Mwanza in north, Dodoma and Dar Es Salaam in the east.
  • a small airport, built in 1942, makes it possible to quickly connect Dar Es Salaam (daily) and Kigoma 5 times per week (Precision Air).
  • the principal track comes from Mwanza to north via Shinyanga. It continues towards the south until Mbeya. Because of the presence of marsh and salted lakes, only crossed by the railway, no road joined directly the Lac Tanganyika.

References

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