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"The core area of Zanj occupation stretched from the territory south of present-day Ras Kamboni to Pemba Island in Tanzania" Thank you very much! Yes, just so. But the problem is that various Medieval authors understood under the "Zanj land" territories with one core area but different borders...

Thank you for your interest to the topic! There is no full English translation of Masudi's "Meadows of Gold" (there is only a French translation and edition of original in Arab) and existing European translations of Masudi's account on Zanj (= Bantu peoples of East and partly South Africa...

A question about possible remote folklore memories of Masudi's "Zanj empire" in present Tanzania. Dear forum visitors and participants! First of all please excuse me for using English - I'm not Swahili-speaker; I add below a Swahili translation of this post but I apologize for inebitable...