Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar
Sayyid Bargash ibn Said Al Busaid (also Bargasch or Barghash ben Said, Arab برغش بن سعيد آل بوسعيد, DMG Bargas b Sa ʿ Id al Bu - Sa ʿ īd; . * 1837, † March 26, 1888 ) was from 1870 to 1888 the Sultan of Zanzibar. Bargash was the younger brother and successor of Majid bin Said, the first Sultan of Zanzibar, and the son of Sultan Said ibn Sultan of Oman.
After he had in 1860 tried unsuccessfully to overthrow his brother Majid, he ruled from 1866 or 1870 until his death in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and the East African possessions. Under his rule, the district was expanded in Stone Town Zanzibar Town and 1873 the departure occurred from the slave trade. In alliance with the Sultan of Tanzania Nyamwezi chief Mirambo could subjugate the Arab traders in 1876, after his death erected Tippu Tip a first under the protection of the Sultan, then from 1887 below that of the Belgian king standing rule in the Congo Basin.
According to Meyers encyclopedia of 1897 Bargash have recognized the benefits of Western, also purely intellectual education and the encroachment of European researchers supported on the mainland, while he increased his influence in the East African hinterland by the simultaneous penetration also sansibarischer slave traders. The decisions taken by the East African chiefs due to progress of the slave traders with the German East Africa Company ( DOAG ) closed protection contracts he protested, but had to for a German fleet demonstration in 1885 to recognize.
During further negotiations between the DOAG and Zanzibar, DOAG to transfer management of the Zanzibari coastal region on behalf of the Sultan, Bargash died on March 26, 1888 He was followed by his brothers Khalifa ibn Sa ʿ id ( 1888-1890 ) and ʿ Alî ibn Sa ʿ id ( 1890. - 1893). Barg Haschs Nunu daughter was married to her cousin Hamid ibn Sa ʿ ibn Thuwaini Id ( 1893-1896 ). Barg Haschs son Khalid bin Barg Hash tried in 1893 and 1896 in vain to gain the Sultan dignity, see British Sansibarischer war.
1875 Bargash received the Prussian Red Eagle Order, 1883, he became Grand Knight of the British Order of St Michael and St George.