Witu, a small territory on the east coast of Africa, in which a German trading company acquired rights in 1886, but, as in some respects dependent on Zanzibar, put under British protection as part of the Imperial British East Africa Company by the agreement in 1890 between Britain and Germany. It is now part of British East Africa.
Witu
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 703
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