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What does Tanganyika mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Tanganyika? Here's what it means.

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  1. A large lake in central Africa, between Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
  2. A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa.
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It also includes the world's second largest freshwater lake, Lake Victoria, and the world's second deepest lake, Lake Tanganyika.
He demonstrated the accessibility of lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika.
Of these 34 graduates, although two were Zanzibaris, none were yet from Kenya or Tanganyika.
Some haplochromine cichlids of Lake Tanganyika are the sister group to the species flocks of Lakes Malawi and Victoria.
Throughout the late colonial period, many Makonde fled the Portuguese regime, taking refuge in what was then Tanganyika across the Rovuma River border.
Starting in 1891, Nyamwezi Chief Isike fought the Germans in Tabora region in the Western part of Tanganyika.

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