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Gag511: a Princess on the Run - Stories From History

Salama bint Said (or Sayyida Salme) was born in Zanzibar in 1844 as the daughter of the Omano-Sanzibar sultan Sayyid Said. Her life as a princess must give up in 1866, flees from the island, marries a Hamburg merchant and begins a new life in the German Empire as Emily Ruete. In the 1880s, Zanzibar and East Africa are increasingly becoming the focus of the European colonial powers and so Emily Ruete is briefly becoming the ball of the colonial p…
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Salama bint Said (or Sayyida Salme) was born in Zanzibar in 1844 as the daughter of the Omano-Sanzibar sultan Sayyid Said. Her life as a princess must give up in 1866, flees from the island, marries a Hamburg merchant and begins a new life in the German Empire as Emily Ruete. In the 1880s, Zanzibar and East Africa are increasingly becoming the focus of the European colonial powers and so Emily Ruete is briefly becoming the ball of the colonial p…

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Geschichten aus der Geschichte broke the news in Heidelberg, Germany on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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