File:Gereza Kilwa Fort on Kilwa Kisiwani Island, Tanzania (2017).jpg

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Description The Gereza Kilwa Fort on Kilwa Kisiwani Island, Tanzania, was built by the Portuguese in 1505 and reconstructed by Omani Arabs after 1512. The name comes from the Portuguese "igreja" (church) which later came to mean "prison" in Swahili.
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Author David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada
Camera location8° 57′ 28.75″ S, 39° 29′ 57.06″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by D-Stanley at https://flickr.com/photos/79721788@N00/34076199852 (archive). It was reviewed on 7 January 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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