Mombassa

Mombasa was a Swahili port on an island of the Kenyan coast. In 1337 it belonged to the Kilwa Sultanate; Ibn Battuta had seen Muslims worshipping in its wooden mosques in 1331.

The Portuguese sacked Mombasa in 1505 and built Fort Jesus in 1593. Omanis captured the fort in 1698, but the Mazrui governors made the town effectively independent in 1746. After a British protectorate from 1824 to 1826, Said bin Sultan of Muscat nominally annexed Mombasa in 1837.