 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this articlebyadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Koma Island" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
  Koma Island
| |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mafia Channel |
| Coordinates | 7°32′37″S 39°23′45″E / 7.54361°S 39.39583°E / -7.54361; 39.39583 |
| Length | 1.6 km (0.99 mi) |
| Width | 1.4 km (0.87 mi) |
| Administration | |
| Region | Pwani Region |
| District | Mkuranga District |
| Ward | Kisiju |
| Demographics | |
| Languages | Swahili |
| Ethnic groups | Ndengereko & Rufiji |
Koma Island also known as Charka Island (Kisiwa cha Koma, in Swahili) is an island located in Kisiju ward of Mkuranga District in southern Pwani RegionofTanzania. The only historical source to mention this island is by Arab navigator Ibn Majid in 1470. In 1996, Felix Chami discovered a small Early Iron Age (EIA) or Early Iron Working (EIW) site on Koma island. The TIW (triangular incised ware) pottery sherds, however, were absent in the island site, indicating that it was eventually abandoned. The Bantu settlement existed from the third to the sixth centuries.[1][2][3]
|
| |
|---|---|
Capital: Mkuranga | |
| Wards |
|
| Native Peoples |
|
| Islands |
|
| Rivers and Lakes |
|
| Major Cities and Towns |
|
| National Parks and Reserves |
|
|
| |
|---|---|
Capital: Kibaha | |
| Districts |
|
| Native Peoples |
|
| National Historic Sites |
|
| Islands |
|
| Rivers and Lakes |
|
| Major Cities and Towns |
|
| National Parks and Reserves |
|
| Landmarks of Pwani |
|
| Heritage Monuments of Pwani |
|
 | This Pwani Region location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
