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ID: 8698199
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698199
Record Type:
administrative
Matapa (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 32 16 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -19.5385
decimal degrees
Long: 032 51 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 32.8502
decimal degrees
Note:
Included territory between the Zambezi and the Limpopo rivers in present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Invaded by the Portuguese in the 16th century and overshadowed by the Rozwi empire in the late 17th century.
Names:
Matapa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
display
)
Mutapa
(
C
,
V
)
The Empire of the Mwene Matapa
(
C
,
V
)
Mwenemutapa
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Matapa
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
14th-17th centuries
empire (
H
)
state (
C
)
Related geographic places:
historical connection ....
Moçambique
.......... (nation)
........................................
(World, Africa) [1000180]
historical connection ....
Zimbabwe
.......... (nation)
........................................
(World, Africa) [1000185]
Sources and Contributors:
Matapa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2016
Mutapa..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2016
Mwenemutapa..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
The Empire of the Mwene Matapa..........
[
VP
]
.....................................................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 3 July 2017
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2016
..................
Google Maps online (2000-)
accessed 24 October 2016
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2016
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