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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 ...
The Royal Order of Munhumutapa, named after the Kingdom of Mutapa, is a national order in Zimbabwe.The Order is conferred upon national citizens and foreign former leaders of the Frontline States in recognition of exemplary support of the independence of Zimbabwe and of Southern Africa.
Nyatsimba Mutota was a member of the Karanga clan of the Shona tribe. [4] He was a representative of the ruling Mbire family. The Mbire had dominated the formation of the state ruled from Great Zimbabwe since its founding by his great-grandfather Mbire, after whom the family took its name.
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.
Zimbabwe's chances of resolving a debt crisis and obtaining World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans are at stake, as foreign lenders have said a free and fair vote is a pre-condition for ...
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. It is known by many names including the Mutapa Empire, also known as Mwenemutapa was known for its gold trade routes with Arabs and the Portuguese. [19]
Today, Neshangwe is one of the Njanja chieftainship located in Buhera. c. 1550 to 1560: Chivere Nyasoro, Mwenemutapa: 1560 to 1589: Negomo Chirisamhuru, Mwenemutapa: Granted Coat of Arms by King of Portugal 1589 to 1623: Gatsi Rusere, Mwenemutapa: 1623 to 1629: Nyambo Kapararidze, Mwenemutapa: Overthrown by the Portuguese 1629: Mutapa becomes a ...
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 ...