Tanga
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- proper noun
- Land in the fertile southern highlands, in Tanga province, and around Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Meru was confiscated by the colonial state for settler plantations.
- the Tanga area
Examples
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After Tanga, we drew back by sea to Mombasa and from thence by rail to Nairobi.
Fiction book (1990) -
I also found very well-developed cult groups in the port city of Tanga and the smaller town of Wete on the island of Pemba.
Academic text (1995) -
No, this came after the disaster at Tanga.
Fiction book (1990) -
Captain Lutz has children in Tanga, one boy and two girls.
Fiction book (1990) -
Captain Lutz has a wife in Tanga.
Fiction book (1990) -
Moreover, they were quite common in both Mombasa and the Tanga area.
Academic text (1995) -
East of Tanga, out amidst the plantations and well into the bush, the Germans had placed beehives in the trees.
Fiction book (1990) -
Some Indian theater owners were keen to help TANU; in Tanga, the local TANU branch was given use of the town's three cinemas to raise money to send a delegate to the Asian Socialist Conference in Bombay.
Academic text (2005) -
The first trials using radiation-induced sterility were conducted in the 1970s by the Tsese and Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (TTRI) in Tanga on the Tanzanian mainland in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development.
Academic text (1998) -
The city of Tanga is known for its beautiful beaches along the Indian Ocean.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Tanga is the name of a coastal city in Tanzania and probably comes from a Swahili word tanga meaning 'sail'. That's a helpful memory clue because Tanga is a busy Indian Ocean port full of ships and sails.