Sultan Hamud
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About Sultan Hamud
Sultan Hamud is a town in Kasikeu division of Makueni County, Kenya. It was previously in the former Nzaui District of Eastern Province.The town is part of Nzai County Council and Kilome Constituency.Sultan Hamud lies on the main railway line of Kenya Railways between the coast at Mombasa and the national capital of Nairobi. It is also a junction for a short branch line.
The settlement sprung up during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway line in the early 1900s.At the time, a 10-mile coastal strip that is now part of Kenya was ruled from Zanzibar.The Sultanate of Zanzibar was created on October 19, 1856, after the death of Said Bin Sultan.He had ruled Oman and Zanzibar as Sultan of Oman since 1804, but the two were split following a succession fight. Until 1886 when European powers moved into the region and the British took control of the island, the Sultan of Zanzibar controlled a substantial portion of the East African Coast, known as Zani.
TRADING ROUTES
Trading routes extended farther into the continent, as far as Kindu on the Congo river.In 1886, following the division of the African hinterland between the British and the Germans, the British placed Sayyid Ali Hamud bin Mohammed in power in Zanzibar after the Anglo-Zanzibar war that lasted less than 40 minutes.The war marked the end of the Zanzibar Sultanate as a sovereign state and the start of a period of heavy British influence.Ali Hamud reigned from 1902 to 1911 and made good relations with the British, who were in charge of the railway construction.Arabs who had occupied the coastal strip were involved in trade across East African countries. As the leader of Zanzibar, Sultan Hamud saw the construction of the railway line as an opportunity for his government to transact business across the two countries.
