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In 2007 Julio Mercader, of the University of Calgary, recovered dozens of 100,000-year-old stone tools from a deep limestone cave near Lake Niassa in Mozambique showing that wild sorghum, the ancestor of the chief cereal consumed today in sub-Saharan Africa for flours, bread, porridges, and alcoholic beverages, was being consumed by Homo sapiens along with African wine palm, the false banana ...
Mozambique is located on the southeast coast of Africa and is bound by Eswatini to the south, South Africa to the southwest, Zimbabwe to the west, Zambia and Malawi to the northwest, Tanzania to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east. Mozambique lies between latitudes 10° and 27°S, and longitudes 30° and 41°E.
The Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique (est. 1934) serves as the national archives of Mozambique. In 1939 it was designated the official "Arquivo do Governo da Colónia" and after independence from Portugal in 1975 became the repository of records of the Republic of Mozambique. [1] Since 1976 the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo oversees ...
This is a timeline of History of Mozambique. Each article deals with events in Mozambique in a given year Pre-1975. Pre-1975; Twenty-first century. 2020s 2020 ...
History of Mozambique by topic (6 C, 1 P) * Mozambique history-related lists (4 P) A. Archaeology of Mozambique (2 C, 1 P) D. Defunct organisations based in ...
The history of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, traces its origins back over 500 years, when a fishing village developed by Maputo Bay on the site where the modern city of Maputo now stands. The first Europeans to discover the bay were Portuguese navigators led by António de Campo in 1502.
Maputo's name reputedly has its origin in the Maputo River: in fact, this river, which marks the border with South Africa in the southernmost extent of Mozambique, had become symbolic during the FRELIMO-led armed struggle against Portuguese sovereignty [citation needed], after the motto «Viva Moçambique unido, do Rovuma ao Maputo», that is ...
Demographics of Mozambique, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in millions. According to the 2022 revision of the world factbook the total population was 31,693,239 in 2022. [1] The proportion of children below the age of 14 in 2020 was 45.57%, 51.5% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.93% was 65 years or older.