The Sultanate of Zanzibar was an East African Muslim state controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar that existed between 1856 and 1964. Its territory varied over time, and after a period of decline the state held sovereignty over only the Zanzibar Archipelago and a narrow strip along the Kenyan coast, with the interior of Kenya constituting the separate British Kenya Colony. The sultanate ended on 12 January 1964, when revolutionaries led by the Afro-Shirazi Party overthrew the mainly Arab government and deposed the last sultan, Jamshid bin Abdullah, in a revolution that also resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands of Arabs.
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