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Capital (and largest city) |
Stone Town (Zanzibar City) | |||||||||
Language official |
Middle Persian (Post-Conquest & Extinct Until 1221) Zanzibarian Persian (Established Until 1215) | |||||||||
others | Swahili
Afar Oromo Tigrinya Harari Sidama Chewa Ethiopian Semitic Languages Somali Latin Sebastianic language (Until 6th Century) Vulgar Latin (Until 6th Century) Nilo-Saharan Rwanda-Rundi Hebrew Language | |||||||||
Religion | Bahmani Zoroastrianism
Traditional African religions Christianity Gnosticism Judaism Germanic paganism (Until 6th Century) | |||||||||
Government | Feudal Elective monarchy (481-1569)
Absolute Elective monarchy (1569-1643) Semi-Constitutional Monarchy Under a Parliamentary Military Dictatorship (1643-1661) | |||||||||
Legislature | Empire
Southern division of The Sasanian Empire (481-1221) | |||||||||
Shahanshah | Ervin Bahman I The Great (481-500) (First)
Bahman Perviz XIX of Zanzibar (1643-1661) (Grandson of Perviz IV of Zanzibar) (1643-1661) (Last) | |||||||||
Royal house: | House of Bahman (481-1221)
House of Perviz (1569-1684) | |||||||||
Governor | Afshin Barati (481-511) (First)
Darvishi Akhtar (1631-1661) (Last) | |||||||||
Established | Founding of Southern Sasanian Empire After Sassanid Conquest of Zanzibar & Zoroastrianization of Zanzibar (481)
Death of Bahman I The Great and His Son Elected as Shahanshah & First Medieval Statue of Bahman I The Great Build (500) Trade With Byzantine Empire (550) Roman-Persian War Ended & Crusades (642-1291) Perso-Mongol War (1215-1221) End of the Eastern Empire (1221) Zanzibarian-Arabic Wars (1322-1548) Black Death But No Date Found (1346-1353) New Crusades (1481-1707) End of the Western Empire (1502) Zanzibarian Revolution of 1554-1569 (Also Known as Absolutism Revolution) (1554) Spanish Settlement of Zanzibar, Economic growth, Mass Slavery Growth, Early Modern Statue of Perviz the Terrible Build & Feudalism Abolished (1569) Emergence of Grand Principality of Albania and Great Zanzibarian Empire as Rival Superpower & Albano-Zanzibarian Economic War (1584-1600) Death of Perviz IV of Zanzibar (or Perviz the Terrible), Economic collapse, Zanzibar Defeat the Albano-Zanzibarian Economic War (If Albania Gained Superpower & More Currency) & Mass Slavery Fall (1600) The Declined of Great Zanzibarian Empire (1601-1661) Kikongo-Zanzibarian War (1611-1684) First Feudalism Restoration (1621) Second Feudalism Restoration (or Three Month War) Zanzibar Semi-Constitution of 1643 & Dictatorships Proclaimed (1643) Spanish Conquest of Zanzibar (1647) Eastern Africa Wars of Independence (1651) Slavery Abolished (1660) Murder of Bahman XIX of Zanzibar, Fall of Stone Town & Early Modern Statue of Perviz the Terrible Demolished (Early 1661) Abolishment & Dissolution of Great Zanzibarian Empire (1661) Collapse of Sulunginian Republic (1684) | |||||||||
Currency | Sasanian coinage |
Also Known as Empire of Zanzibar or Zoroastrian Kingdom of Zanzibar.