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Page dedicated to archaeological sites in Eastern Africa (as opposed to the study of Eastern African Archaeology itself). Eastern Africa is as defined by the UN (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, and Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles, and any islands off the coast)).
Archaeological Sites in the region of Eastern Africa organized by country. Eastern Africa is defined as is by the UN (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles, and any islands off the coast). This category is meant only to ...
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape. Defined in varying scopes, the region is recognized in the United Nations Statistics Division scheme as encompassing 18 sovereign states and 4 territories.
A map of World Heritage Sites in Africa as of 2016, each designated by a dot 0 sites 1–2 sites 3–4 sites 5–6 sites 7–8 sites 9 sites. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 147 World Heritage Sites in Africa.
The history of East Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and the post-colonial period, in which the current nations were formed. East Africa is the eastern region of Africa , bordered by North Africa , Central Africa , Southern Africa , the Indian Ocean , and the Sahara Desert .
88 South Africa. 89 Spain. 90 Sri Lanka. 91 Sultanate of Oman. ... East Baray; East Mebon; Kbal Spean ... Ganondagan State Historic Site; Gault site;
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
The history of maritime trade along the coast of East Africa dates to the Classical period. The Periplus Maris Erthraei, written by an Egyptian-Greek merchant circa AD 40–55, described trading ports along the Indian Ocean including Azania, a historic designation of the East African coast extending southward to present day Tanzania.