Tengeru is a market-town in the

Arusha Region Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census). Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern ...

of northern

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. Located below

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on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the

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, surrounding Lake Duluti, Tengeru has a temperate climate. The town is thirteen kilometres east of the city of

Arusha Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census). Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern bran ...

History

In 1934, Kenyon Painter, an American investor, established a coffee research station at Tengeru, which today is operated by the Lyamungu Research Institute of the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture and known as the National Centre for Coffee Research. Beginning in 1942 and continuing after World War II, a

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for

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s from central and eastern Europe was established at Tengeru, just south of Lake Duluti. It primarily housed

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, who were then resettled in the United States, Australia, northern Europe and other countries. At its height it housed over 4,000 people, but now all that remains of the camp is its large cemetery. The dairy and beef cattle farm that was run by the internees was taken over in 1952 by the Ministry of Agriculture and became the Tengeru Horticultural Research and Training Institute (HORTI). Today, Tengeru has become a suburb of Arusha.

Twin Towns

The town is twinned with the town of

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in the UK

Notes and references

{{Clear Populated places in Arusha Region