Editing Zanzibar (section)

=== Zanzibar revolution and merger with Tanganyika ===
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[[File:Abeid Karume 1964.jpg|thumb|180px|President [[Abeid Karume]]]]
On 10 December 1963,<ref>[[Zanzibar Act 1963]] of the United Kingdom – this Act was not a Zanzibar Independence Act because the UK was not conferring independence as it did not hold sovereignty; it was ending the Protectorate over that territory and providing for its fully responsible government.</ref> the Protectorate that had existed over Zanzibar since 1890 was terminated by the United Kingdom. Rather, by the Zanzibar Act 1963 of the United Kingdom, the UK ended the Protectorate and made provision for full self-government in Zanzibar as an independent country within the Commonwealth. Upon the Protectorate being abolished, Zanzibar became a [[constitutional monarchy]] within the Commonwealth under the Sultan.<ref name="DeptofStatep986">{{Harvnb|United States Department of State|1975|p=986}}</ref>

However, just a month later, on 12 January 1964 Sultan [[Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar|Jamshid bin Abdullah]] was [[deposition (politics)|deposed]] during the [[Zanzibar Revolution]].{{Sfn |Ayany|1970|p=122}} The Sultan fled into exile, and the Sultanate was replaced by the [[People's Republic of Zanzibar]], a [[State socialism|socialist government]] led by the [[Afro-Shirazi Party]] (ASP). Over 20,000 people were killed – mostly Arabs and Indians – and many of them escaped the country as a consequence of the revolution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The forgotten genocide of the Zanzibar revolution |url= http://speakjhr.com/2014/01/forgotten-genocide-zanzibar-revolution/ |website=Speak Magazine |access-date=2016-01-04 |archive-date=13 December 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211213123430/http://speakjhr.com/2014/01/forgotten-genocide-zanzibar-revolution/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 1964, the republic merged with mainland [[Tanganyika (1961–1964)|Tanganyika.]] This [[United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar]] was soon renamed, [[blend word|blend]]ing the two names, as the [[United Republic of Tanzania]], within which Zanzibar remains an autonomous region.