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The Island of Mozambique is a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay on the Nacala coast of northern Mozambique, first explored by Europeans in the late 15th century. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts displaced the Arabic commercial and military hegemony, becoming regular ports of call on the new European sea route to ...
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 Mozambique Company relinquished its territories back to Portuguese control in 1942, unifying Mozambique under control of the Portuguese government. The region as a whole was long officially termed Portuguese East Africa , and was subdivided into a series of colonies extending from Lourenço Marques in the south to Niassa in the north.
The Mozambican War of Independence [48] was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and Portugal.The war officially started on 25 September 1964, and ended with a ceasefire on 8 September 1974, resulting in a negotiated independence in 1975.
Groups interested in freeing Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule and making it an independent nation emerged in the early 1900s, shortly after Portugal had defeated the last of the native chieftaincies and established effective control over the territory.
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.
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 ...