Said bin Sultan moves his capital to Zanzibar

Said bin Sultan moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar in the 1830s, and it remained his capital in the years when his power was at its commercial height. ^{1 2}

Neither the English article nor Britannica names a single year for the move; both place it in the 1830s. Britannica says Said made Zanzibar the leading power in East Africa and the commercial capital of the western Indian Ocean. ² The English article says he introduced clove cultivation to Zanzibar and Pemba, which became among the world's largest producers, and that Zanzibar became the port for ivory, slaves and spices. ¹ The museum records the slave trade as the sources describe it, as part of the sultanate's economy in that period, without praise or blame.