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The Mutapa Empire – sometimes referred to as Mwenemutapa, (Shona: Mwene we Mutapa, Portuguese: Monomotapa) – was an African empire in Zimbabwe, which expanded to what is now modern-day Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia. It was ruled by the Nembire or Mbire dynasty. [2] Map of trade centres and routes in precolonial Zimbabwe.
A sixteenth-century Portuguese map of Monomotapa lying in the interior of southern Africa. The Portuguese term Monomotapa is a transliteration of the Shona royal title Mwenemutapa or Munhumutapa derived from a combination of two words Mwene or Munhu meaning Man, and Mutapa meaning conquerer. Over time the monarch's royal title was applied to ...
Europeans first came to the region in southern Africa today called Zimbabwe in the sixteenth century, when Portuguese colonials ventured inland from Mozambique and attacked the Kingdom of Mutapa, which then controlled an area roughly equivalent to eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. Portuguese influence over Mutapa endured for about two ...
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".
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 ...
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.
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.
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.