Kilwa Sultanate Expansion in the 1320s

Name: Kilwa Sultanate Expansion in the 1320s
Start: 1320
End: 1330

Type Event Region Africa Time 1320–1330

In the 1320s, the Kilwa Sultanate on East Africa's Swahili coast continued consolidating control over Indian Ocean trade networks, extending influenc…

Timeline

1320–1325Kilwa Kisiwani · TanzaniaIn the early 1320s the Sultan of Kilwa continued expanding the Great Mosque and palace complexes, maintained circulation of gold coins (Kilwa dinar), and controlled the tributary and trade shares of coastal city-states through port tariffs and nominal suzerainty.
1326–1330Sofala · MozambiqueThrough appointing local governors and caravan networks, Kilwa strengthened its monopolistic transshipment of gold and ivory from Sofala and the Zambezi River basin, making Kilwa by the late 1320s one of the wealthiest Islamic city-states in East Africa.

Sources

The Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. 3: From c.1050 to c.1600 (1977)
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Kilwa