Located Kenya on the equator in the middle east of the African continent and its capital, Nairobi, and is the port of Mombasa is the largest and most important port on the east coast of the African continent, and the nature of charming, located in Kenya's Indian Ocean below the equator slightly and is one of the oldest African ports, and certainly the oldest on the coast east. And extends the port on the island of the same name of the city and linked to Mother Earth through a major bridge in addition to the steam boats that transport passengers between the two shores, where the city swelled and spread to parts of them on Mother Earth
Mount Kenya, Africa's second largest mountain after mountain, up Kilimanjaro
Although Mombasa, the largest and most important port on the east coast of Africa, as well as being the most important regions of the continent attractive for tourism, they are still poor, much like African cities in misery and poor services. But God blessed naturally stunning and mild climate there is no doubt they were the two main reasons to draw the attention of the invaders and colonizers it. After centuries of colonialism became a gift of this nature an essential source of income, as is visiting the country about 800 thousand tourists per year (mostly from Western countries) and the total tourism revenue about $ 600 million annually.
Ancient City of Mombasa
Despite the poverty of the old city grew up around tourist resorts are huge and modern take advantage of the beautiful nature and beaches and warm Indian Ocean waters, as well as the close proximity of the most famous sanctuaries of large animals in the plains of the African savannah, such as «Savo» Bank and «Savo» East .. two Mahmytan are huge live animals of the jungle in which the predatory nature. One of those reserves can see Mount «Clemengaaro» The white snow-capped summit, as it is the highest mountain in Africa, while the bottom, surrounded by tropical weather.
And regulate the tourism companies deployed in the city tours within these reserves usually takes between 3 and 4 days, slept during which visitors (who include families and children) in lounges, comfortable and equipped with all the supplies and restaurants, while they spend the day in the curfew cars specially prepared to see the animals and chauffeur-driven professionals. And works bikers themselves as guides, as they know the whereabouts of the animals and Tabaaha times and exit from their dens, and to what extent can touch them or stay away from them.
Mombasa Beach
And often breaks the night near the water resources that are not bound to resort to it all the animals to drink at different times of the day. Here I can not fail to point out the beauty of the architecture, which enjoys these breaks, as it looks from the outside in the form of African huts used fronds and timber, while enjoying at home with all modern conveniences. It must also be noted that the majority of the population of Mombasa good and she likes Mashrhm. It is accepted that the desired activities by many tourists cruises, where dive beneath the surface of the water to enjoy the fascinating formations of fish that abound by the Indian Ocean. If you're lucky, the fish the dolphins usually come to the tourists to swim alongside them. The reason for this is to return these fish to feed them in those locations.
Impact in the Arab city: from striking that Mombasa has become during the past ten years a major kiss for tourists, while Europeans and Americans missed by Arab tourists completely although the city's history important Arab. Western tourists have come to prefer trips nature (as long as the means of safety and security available) on trips to the usual tourist areas. Is not that what makes Mombasa with Arab interest is the fact that the Arabs, and the Omani specifically, the ones who founded, since the tenth century and remained until the last century, they control alternating with the Portuguese and then the British, in a constant struggle to control maritime traffic and trade in the Indian Ocean.
The oldest mosques in Mombasa
Before I enumerate a little bit of history of the city, let us say something about the simple present and impact the Arab-Muslim even today. Mombasa's population consists of about 700 thousand people, most of them indigenous Africans in addition to a wide range of Almahjnin between African and Arab blood. Also live in the city also Arab community (Omani origin), and other Asian (Indian and Pakistani) attended the stability and work in Mombasa since the beginning of the twentieth century, when the British wanted the establishment of a railway line stretching from the Indian Ocean through Kenya until it reaches the north-eastern Tanzania and the Republic of Uganda, where it ends at famous Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile River. The idea was to link the Indian Ocean to the Nile, which in turn is linked to the Mediterranean Sea.
Of course, Islam is spreading in the city and spread the mosques, and rarely miss the sound of your ears ears of the five daily prayers. Even so, no one can count the number of Muslims in the city living side by side in complete harmony with Christians and other faiths in the African. The city is really a model of tolerance and cultural harmony between human beings gained over its long history of delegations from different nationalities and peoples to it.
Despite the long period of Portuguese rule, and then British colonialism in the twentieth century, the European impact on the lives of human beings and Amranhm and even their language is not comparable in any way impact the Arab world. When I asked one of the intellectuals of the city for the lack of impact of the Portuguese, despite the length of the period of their rule, which does not say much about the rule of the Arabs, he said that the Arabs did not come up as conquerors only «They even Khaltona in our blood and lived among us and influenced our behavior and our habits». In contrast, the Portuguese lived continuously in the neighborhood of their own, but in most cases within the «Castle Christ» which created in 1590, and their goal was confined to the control of trade and navigation in the Indian Ocean.
Fort Christ
«Swahili» a mixture of Arabic and African languages: English speaking people of the city «Swahili» that has spread into the continent and has now become one of the largest and most important African languages. It is the name of the language itself is clear to us that the Arab influence is enormous, it is in fact a mixture of Arabic and local languages, especially «Albaentino», and almost no trace of the Portuguese language.
It also features the Arab-Islamic city in the Gulf of Oman outfit for women (black dress and headscarf). The Amran city, especially the old city, is similar to the Omani Omran to a large degree.
But the old city, which is small and old architectural style and beautiful, located around the old fort called «Castle Christ» which had been built by the Portuguese in the form of the cross at the end of the sixteenth century to protect themselves against attacks from the sea of Oman. However, the castle fell into the hands of the Portuguese and then the Omanis Omanis then again .. and thus continued the case 9 times over hundreds of years. When the British took over the castle at the end of the last century turned it into a prison, then became after Kenya's independence in 1963 and a national museum tells the history of the city embodies the violent and heritage.
Each time, the Omanis or Portuguese control of the castle were changing their doors and put doors bearing inscriptions and motifs of Islamic or Christian as the new occupier. As they were turning the temple either to a mosque and a church either. When the castle fell into the hands of the Omanis for the first time, it was the Omanis had besieged it from the sea and the mainland for more than a year, the Portuguese did not give up when he died, but most of the residents of the castle, which resorted to all the Portuguese in the city to shelter themselves in the inside of Omani invaders. But it ended up to starvation and thirst after their blockade cut all supplies in order to force them to surrender.
Ibn Battuta and Vsco de Gama: the foundations of the city merchants and sailors Arabs in the late nineteenth century, and then had the traveler known as Ibn Battuta in 1330, as had also Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama in 1498 and in 1840 and after that moved the city from the hands of the Portuguese Arabs and vice versa several times subjected the city to control the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar origin, then dominated by the British in 1895, then became the capital of the British protectorate in East Africa in 1907.
Since the beginning of the tenth century the foundations of Omani Arabs next to Mombasa, a number of cities and small ports on the Indian Ocean, especially in Kenya and Tanzania, have become so controlling the movement of trade in the Indian Ocean. But since that de Gama discovered the sea route to India via the head of the traffic of Good Hope in South Africa and access to the south of Mombasa, the Portuguese tried to over a century of control over the cities of Zanzibar established by the Arabs, and therefore control of the trade in the ocean. Indeed, throughout the sixteenth century and until the beginning of the seventh century the Portuguese succeeded in achieving this without a big dispute. Today, in addition to tourism income and the use of the port of Mombasa contain oil refineries and factories sophisticated raw sugar.
Mount Kenya, Africa's second largest mountain after mountain, up Kilimanjaro
Although Mombasa, the largest and most important port on the east coast of Africa, as well as being the most important regions of the continent attractive for tourism, they are still poor, much like African cities in misery and poor services. But God blessed naturally stunning and mild climate there is no doubt they were the two main reasons to draw the attention of the invaders and colonizers it. After centuries of colonialism became a gift of this nature an essential source of income, as is visiting the country about 800 thousand tourists per year (mostly from Western countries) and the total tourism revenue about $ 600 million annually.
Ancient City of Mombasa
Despite the poverty of the old city grew up around tourist resorts are huge and modern take advantage of the beautiful nature and beaches and warm Indian Ocean waters, as well as the close proximity of the most famous sanctuaries of large animals in the plains of the African savannah, such as «Savo» Bank and «Savo» East .. two Mahmytan are huge live animals of the jungle in which the predatory nature. One of those reserves can see Mount «Clemengaaro» The white snow-capped summit, as it is the highest mountain in Africa, while the bottom, surrounded by tropical weather.
And regulate the tourism companies deployed in the city tours within these reserves usually takes between 3 and 4 days, slept during which visitors (who include families and children) in lounges, comfortable and equipped with all the supplies and restaurants, while they spend the day in the curfew cars specially prepared to see the animals and chauffeur-driven professionals. And works bikers themselves as guides, as they know the whereabouts of the animals and Tabaaha times and exit from their dens, and to what extent can touch them or stay away from them.
Mombasa Beach
And often breaks the night near the water resources that are not bound to resort to it all the animals to drink at different times of the day. Here I can not fail to point out the beauty of the architecture, which enjoys these breaks, as it looks from the outside in the form of African huts used fronds and timber, while enjoying at home with all modern conveniences. It must also be noted that the majority of the population of Mombasa good and she likes Mashrhm. It is accepted that the desired activities by many tourists cruises, where dive beneath the surface of the water to enjoy the fascinating formations of fish that abound by the Indian Ocean. If you're lucky, the fish the dolphins usually come to the tourists to swim alongside them. The reason for this is to return these fish to feed them in those locations.
Impact in the Arab city: from striking that Mombasa has become during the past ten years a major kiss for tourists, while Europeans and Americans missed by Arab tourists completely although the city's history important Arab. Western tourists have come to prefer trips nature (as long as the means of safety and security available) on trips to the usual tourist areas. Is not that what makes Mombasa with Arab interest is the fact that the Arabs, and the Omani specifically, the ones who founded, since the tenth century and remained until the last century, they control alternating with the Portuguese and then the British, in a constant struggle to control maritime traffic and trade in the Indian Ocean.
The oldest mosques in Mombasa
Before I enumerate a little bit of history of the city, let us say something about the simple present and impact the Arab-Muslim even today. Mombasa's population consists of about 700 thousand people, most of them indigenous Africans in addition to a wide range of Almahjnin between African and Arab blood. Also live in the city also Arab community (Omani origin), and other Asian (Indian and Pakistani) attended the stability and work in Mombasa since the beginning of the twentieth century, when the British wanted the establishment of a railway line stretching from the Indian Ocean through Kenya until it reaches the north-eastern Tanzania and the Republic of Uganda, where it ends at famous Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile River. The idea was to link the Indian Ocean to the Nile, which in turn is linked to the Mediterranean Sea.
Of course, Islam is spreading in the city and spread the mosques, and rarely miss the sound of your ears ears of the five daily prayers. Even so, no one can count the number of Muslims in the city living side by side in complete harmony with Christians and other faiths in the African. The city is really a model of tolerance and cultural harmony between human beings gained over its long history of delegations from different nationalities and peoples to it.
Despite the long period of Portuguese rule, and then British colonialism in the twentieth century, the European impact on the lives of human beings and Amranhm and even their language is not comparable in any way impact the Arab world. When I asked one of the intellectuals of the city for the lack of impact of the Portuguese, despite the length of the period of their rule, which does not say much about the rule of the Arabs, he said that the Arabs did not come up as conquerors only «They even Khaltona in our blood and lived among us and influenced our behavior and our habits». In contrast, the Portuguese lived continuously in the neighborhood of their own, but in most cases within the «Castle Christ» which created in 1590, and their goal was confined to the control of trade and navigation in the Indian Ocean.
Fort Christ
«Swahili» a mixture of Arabic and African languages: English speaking people of the city «Swahili» that has spread into the continent and has now become one of the largest and most important African languages. It is the name of the language itself is clear to us that the Arab influence is enormous, it is in fact a mixture of Arabic and local languages, especially «Albaentino», and almost no trace of the Portuguese language.
It also features the Arab-Islamic city in the Gulf of Oman outfit for women (black dress and headscarf). The Amran city, especially the old city, is similar to the Omani Omran to a large degree.
But the old city, which is small and old architectural style and beautiful, located around the old fort called «Castle Christ» which had been built by the Portuguese in the form of the cross at the end of the sixteenth century to protect themselves against attacks from the sea of Oman. However, the castle fell into the hands of the Portuguese and then the Omanis Omanis then again .. and thus continued the case 9 times over hundreds of years. When the British took over the castle at the end of the last century turned it into a prison, then became after Kenya's independence in 1963 and a national museum tells the history of the city embodies the violent and heritage.
Each time, the Omanis or Portuguese control of the castle were changing their doors and put doors bearing inscriptions and motifs of Islamic or Christian as the new occupier. As they were turning the temple either to a mosque and a church either. When the castle fell into the hands of the Omanis for the first time, it was the Omanis had besieged it from the sea and the mainland for more than a year, the Portuguese did not give up when he died, but most of the residents of the castle, which resorted to all the Portuguese in the city to shelter themselves in the inside of Omani invaders. But it ended up to starvation and thirst after their blockade cut all supplies in order to force them to surrender.
Ibn Battuta and Vsco de Gama: the foundations of the city merchants and sailors Arabs in the late nineteenth century, and then had the traveler known as Ibn Battuta in 1330, as had also Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama in 1498 and in 1840 and after that moved the city from the hands of the Portuguese Arabs and vice versa several times subjected the city to control the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar origin, then dominated by the British in 1895, then became the capital of the British protectorate in East Africa in 1907.
Since the beginning of the tenth century the foundations of Omani Arabs next to Mombasa, a number of cities and small ports on the Indian Ocean, especially in Kenya and Tanzania, have become so controlling the movement of trade in the Indian Ocean. But since that de Gama discovered the sea route to India via the head of the traffic of Good Hope in South Africa and access to the south of Mombasa, the Portuguese tried to over a century of control over the cities of Zanzibar established by the Arabs, and therefore control of the trade in the ocean. Indeed, throughout the sixteenth century and until the beginning of the seventh century the Portuguese succeeded in achieving this without a big dispute. Today, in addition to tourism income and the use of the port of Mombasa contain oil refineries and factories sophisticated raw sugar.
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