Major Swahili coast trading city-state and Indian Ocean port.
Lost independence as a city-state in 1837 when Busaidi Sultan Sayyid Said of Zanzibar invaded and annexed it, ending the autonomous Mazrui era; it subsequently became part of the Sultanate of Zanzibar until the British East Africa Protectorate absorbed the coast in 1895.
A history of Swahili coast society and its trading city-states, including Mombasa.
Survey of the Indian Ocean Swahili ports such as Mombasa (broad regional context).