Tanganyika

Proper noun

Meaning

A large lake in Central Africa, between Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.

A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa.

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I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began. Jane Goodall

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? Ray Bradbury

Spoken on 10 November 1871 in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. Henry Morton Stanley

Also from Lake Malawi Also from Lake Malawi A shell-brooding cichlid of the genus Lamprologus from Lake Tanganyika in East Africa The Texas cichlid ( Herichthys cyanoguttatus ) is the only cichlid native to the United States. Source: Internet

Burton, recovering from illness and resting further south on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, was outraged that Speke claimed to have proved his discovery to be the true source of the Nile when Burton regarded this as still unsettled. Source: Internet

Dar es Salaam continued to serve as its capital, even when in 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania. Source: Internet

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