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The Mutapa Empire – sometimes referred to as the Mutapa Kingdom, Mwenemutapa, (Shona: Mwene (or Munhu) we Mutapa, Portuguese: Monomotapa) – was an African empire in Zimbabwe, which expanded to what is now modern-day Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia. A sixteenth-century Portuguese map of Monomotapa lying in the interior of southern ...
Mutapa becomes a Rozvi Vassal: 1663 to 1692: Kamharapasu Mukombwe, Mwenemutapa: Allies with Rozvi and throws out Prazos 1692 to 1694: Nyakambira, Mwenemutapa: Assumes throne with Rozvi support; Rozwi vassal king of Manyika after 1694 1694: Mutapa returns to Portuguese vassalage: 1694 to 1707: Nyamhande, Mwenemutapa: Defeats Nyakiambira with ...
Mutapa Kingdom: c. 1430 –1760: Butua Kingdom: c. 1450 –1683: White settlement pre-1923. Rozvi Empire: ... Timeline of Harare; List of years by country; Bibliography
This Kalanga state further refined and expanded upon Mapungubwe's stone architecture, which survives to this day at the ruins of the kingdom's capital of Great Zimbabwe. From c. 1450 –1760, Zimbabwe gave way to the Kingdom of Mutapa. This Kalanga state ruled much of the area that is known as Zimbabwe today, and parts of central Mozambique.
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bulawayo, ... Mutapa Kingdom: c. 1430 –1760: ... State House, Bulawayo completed as ...
Emperor of Mutapa from 1629 to 1652 Mavura Mhande Felipe , or just Mavura or Filipe , was the emperor ( mwenemutapa ) of the Mutapa Empire from 1629 to 1652. By the 1620s, Christianity was spreading to Mutapa through the presence of the Portuguese , who had a trading base in Mozambique .
By the time the Portuguese arrived on the coast of Mozambique, the Mutapa Kingdom was the premier state in the region. [13] He raised a strong army which conquered the Dande area of the Tonga and Tavara. The empire had reached its full extent by the year 1480 CE a mere 50 years following its creation. [14]