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Tanzanian Camouflage Patterns

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This nation is today known as the United Republic of Tanzania. The earliest inhabitants were hunter-gatherers, but later migrations of Bantu and Nilotic-speaking people would account for the majority of the nation's current population. Islam would have been introduced here as early as the 8th or 9th century by Arab traders who had reached the East African coast. In 1840 the island of Zanzibar was claimed by an Omani sultan, which in turn became the center of the Arab slave trade. On the mainland, meanwhile, [[Germany]] incorporated present day Tanzania, [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] into German East Africa, but lost control over the territories following the First World War, with Rwanda and Burundi going to Belgium, and Tanzania falling under [[United Kingdom|British]] mandate.

In 1954, Julius Nyerere founded the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) to strive for the independence of the mainland territory (then known as Tanganyika). In 1961, when Britain granted this, Nyerere was appointed Prime Minister, and later elected President. Shortly thereafter, Nyerere committed the new state to socalism and a Pan-Africanist doctrine.

The Sultan of Zanzibar was overthrown in 1964 by African revolutionaries, and the island merged with its mainland neighbor to form Tanzania on April 26.

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 * Security forces (presumbly police) operating in Zanzibar circa 2005 were documented wearing commercial [[tiger stripe]] pattern camouflage uniforms.
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 == Tanzanian Camouflage Patterns ==
-* The TPDF have continuously worn some variation of [[DPM]] camouflage since the late 1970s. One of the earliest uniform contracts was through the same company that produced uniforms for the [[Canada|Canadian]] government. The early camouflage uniforms are often mistaken for Canadian military issue, but they were in fact contract pieces for the TPDF. The government of [[South Africa]] even copied the pattern and style of uniform exactly, for issue to its special operations forces.
+* The TPDF have continuously worn some variation of [[DPM]] camouflage since the late 1970s. One of the earliest uniform contracts was through the same company that produced uniforms for the [[Canada|Canadian]] government. The early camouflage uniforms are often mistaken for Canadian military issue, and some sources suggest they may have actually been produced for Canadian Forces but later rejected by the government. Construction differences in most surviving samples, however, confirm that most surviving examples were actually contract pieces for the TPDF. The government of [[South Africa]] even copied the pattern and style of uniform exactly, for issue to its special operations forces.
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 This nation is today known as the United Republic of Tanzania. The earliest inhabitants were hunter-gatherers, but later migrations of Bantu and Nilotic-speaking people would account for the majority of the nation's current population. Islam would have been introduced here as early as the 8th or 9th century by Arab traders who had reached the East African coast. In 1840 the island of Zanzibar was claimed by an Omani sultan, which in turn became the center of the Arab slave trade. On the mainland in the late 19th century, [[Germany]] incorporated present day Tanzania, [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] into German East Africa, but lost control over the territories following the First World War, with Rwanda and Burundi going to Belgium, and Tanzania falling under [[United Kingdom|British]] mandate.
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 The nation's armed forces are known as the Tanzania Peoples’ Defence Force (TPDF). With approximately 27,000 active duty personnel, the TPDF consist of the Land Forces Command, Naval Command, and Air Force Command.
 == Tanzanian Camouflage Patterns ==