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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 ...
By 1690 they forced the Portuguese off the plateau and the Rozvi controlled much of the land formerly under Mwene Mutapa. With relative peace and prosperity for the next two centuries, the centres of Dlo-Dlo, Khami reached their peaks. As a result of the mid-19th century turmoil in Transvaal and Natal, the Rozvi Empire came to an end.
Mutapa independent of Rozvi; moves capital to Chikova in 1723: 1723 to 1735: Samatambira Nyamhandu I, Mwenemutapa: Rules in close alliance with Portuguese at Tete: 1735 to 1740: Nyatsusu, Mwenemutapa: 1740 to 1759: Dehwe Mapunzaguta, Mwenemutapa: Has Portuguese garrison reinstated at royal capital. 1760: Mutapa collapses in Civil War; dynasty ...
The Great Zimbabwe area was previously settled by the San dating back 100,000 years, [a] and by Bantu-speaking peoples from 150 BC who formed agricultural chiefdoms from the 4th century AD. [ 15 ] : 11–12 Between the 4th and the 7th centuries, communities of the Gokomere or Ziwa cultures farmed the valley, and mined and worked iron, but built ...
By the 16th century, the Mutapa Empire and the Kingdom of ... The region had been inhabited by the San dating back over 100,000 years ... The state was composed of ...
Portuguese ruins in Zimbabwe are scattered across the northern parts of Zimbabwe.They are a remnant of the Portuguese colonial presence in south-eastern Africa.From their coastal settlements, the Portuguese penetrated into what is now Zimbabwe as early as 1560, nearly 300 years before David Livingstone arrived at the Victoria Falls.
There have been many civilizations in Zimbabwe as is shown by the ancient stone structures at Khami, Great Zimbabwe, and Dhlo-Dhlo.The first major civilization to become established as the Mwene Mutapa (or Monomotapas), who was said to have built Great Zimbabwe, in the ruins of which was found the soapstone bird that features on the Zimbabwean flag.
The Portuguese also established their trade interests in the Kingdom of Mutapa in the 16th century, and in 1629 placed a puppet ruler on the throne. The Portuguese (and later also the Dutch) also became involved in the local slave economy, supporting the state of the Jaggas, who performed slave raids in the Congo. [citation needed]