《Kilwa Chronicles》

Japanese: 《キルワ年代記》 - きるわねんだいき
《Kilwa Chronicles》

…In 1823, officers of the Royal Navy's Barracuda, who anchored at Kilwa Island to chart the sea, discovered the ruins of an ancient, magnificent city here. Since the 1960s, large-scale archaeological excavations have been carried out, and Chinese pottery, Chinese, Arabic and Roman coins, glass beads, etc. have been discovered along with a town lined with stone houses and mosques. Furthermore, the discovery of the Kilwa Chronicle, written in Arabic, has begun to tell the story of Kilwa's former glory. Currently inhabited by a small number of Swahili fishermen, the island flourished as a major western center of trade in the Indian Ocean from the 7th, 8th and 15th centuries, controlling Sofala, which shipped gold from the Monomotapa Kingdom to the south. …

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Japanese:

…1823年,海図を作るために,キルワ島に停泊したイギリス海軍の帆走艦バラクーダ号の士官たちは,ここに古い壮麗な都市の廃墟を発見した。1960年代以来,大規模な考古学的発掘が行われ,中国製の陶器,中国,アラブ,ローマなどの貨幣,ガラス玉などが,石造の住居やモスクがならぶ町とともに発見され,さらに,アラビア語で書かれた《キルワ年代記》が発見されるに及んで,キルワの往時の栄華が語られはじめている。現在では,わずかのスワヒリ漁業民が住むこの島は,7,8~15世紀,南方のモノモタパ王国に産する金を積み出すソファラを支配下において,インド洋交易の西側の一大中心地として栄えた。…

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