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Guta raJehovah or Guta ra Jehovah (English: City of Jehovah), also known as the City of God, [1] is a church and series of religious healing communities located across Zimbabwe. [2] The beliefs of this church stem from the Methodist teachings that were present across Southern Africa at this time as well as more traditional healing practices ...
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
It is believed that this new addition to Shona religion was incorporated into Great Zimbabwe. [4] Mwari was frequently approached via mediums at shrines at Matonjeni in the Matopo Hills of Zimbabwe. [5] In 1890, Christian missionaries began to translate the Bible into Shona. [6] They translated the name for the biblical God as Mwari.
The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of independence in April 1980. Prior to that point, the country had been called Southern Rhodesia from 1898 to 1964 (or 1980, according to British law), Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia between June and December 1979. Since Zimbabwean independence in ...
Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
The name "Zimbabwe" stems from a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, a medieval city in the country's south-east.Two different theories address the origin of the word. Many sources hold that "Zimbabwe" derives from dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Karanga dialect of Shona as "houses of stones" (dzimba = plural of imba, "house"; mabwe = plural of ibwe, "stone").
In September 2023, Zimbabwe signed control over almost 20% of the country's land to the carbon offset company Blue Carbon. [113] Economic statistics 2021. GDP growth in Zimbabwe is projected to reach 3.9% in 2021, a significant improvement after a two-year recession, according to the World Bank Zimbabwe Economic Update. [114]
Harare (/ h ə ˈ r ɑːr eɪ / hə-RAR-ay), [5] formerly Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 982.3 km 2 (379.3 sq mi), a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 census [6] and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metropolitan province. [6] The city is situated in north-eastern Zimbabwe in the ...