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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 ...
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.
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.
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The Zimbabwe state was composed of over 150 smaller zimbabwes and likely covered 50,000 km² (19,000 square miles). It is unknown what caused Great Zimbabwe's decline from the 15th century, however land depletion or a depletion of critical resources, a decline in global trade, and increased regional competition likely played a role.
There are several Mutapa origin stories, the most widely accepted told by oral tradition is of the princes of Great Zimbabwe.The first "Mutapa" was a warrior prince named Nyatsimba Mutota from the Kingdom of Zimbabwe who expanded the reach of the kingdom initially to discover new sources of salt in the north. [3]
From c. 1450 to 1760, the Kingdom of Mutapa ruled much of the area of present-day Zimbabwe, plus parts of central Mozambique. It is known by many names including the Mutapa Empire, also known as Mwene Mutapa or Monomotapa as well as "Munhumutapa", and was renowned for its strategic trade routes with the Arabs and Portugal. The Portuguese sought ...
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 ...