Dar es Salaam

or Dar-es-Sa·laam

[ dahr es suh-lahm ]

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noun

Dar es Salaam

/ ˈdɑːr ɛs səˈlɑːm /

the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)

The 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya by Al-Qaeda killed 224 people.

Caravans from Dar-es-Salaam to Tanganyika take 60 days to do the journey.

The attempt to obstruct the harbour mouth at Dar-es-Salaam was typical of their naval ineptitude.

Slipping out from Chinde at the outbreak of war, she made her way to Dar-es-Salaam.

Badly bruised only, they left me later to recover of their contusion in the hospital at Dar-es-Salaam.

Dar-es-Salaam in particular, seems to have been the apple of the German colonial eye.

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