What the records say
- When
- Jun 1945 – Jun 1960
- Kind
- Territorial claim
- Coordinates
- 9.15° S, 28.85° E
- Region
- 3
- Claim resolution
- 5
- Claim violence
- 0
- Significance
- 5
- Significance index
- 2
- Significance state1
- 2
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Kilwa Island
Island on Lake Mweru, Zambia
Kilwa Island is a lake island in the Zambian part of Lake Mweru. The nearest mainland shore is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east, by the town of Kilwa. The island was used a base by Arab and Swahili traders of ivory, copper and slaves, who named it after Kilwa Kisiwani on the ocean coast of modern Tanzania.
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The source
- ICOW Territorial Claims 1816–2001Issue Correlates of WarCorrelates of War: free use with citation