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Zingium
Zingium is a Latinization of the Arabic word زنج zanj, which can be roughly translated as "Land of the Blacks". This is an archaic name for the band of East African coast in modern-day Kenya and Tanzania, including Zanzibar (whose name includes a form of the word zanj).
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