Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Great Zimbabwe has since been adopted as a national monument by the Zimbabwean government, and the modern independent state was named after it. The word great distinguishes the site from the many smaller ruins, known as " zimbabwes ", spread across the Zimbabwe Highveld . [ 9 ]
Monument Number Name of Site Description Year of Gazetting Site Type Site Category Region Province District Coordinates Image 1 Victoria Falls E.N 485 1937 Geological Natural Western Matabeleland North: Wankie: 2 Great Zimbabwe Ruins E.N 485 1950 Dry Stone Walls Archaeological Southern Masvingo: Masvingo: 3 Naletale Ruins E.N 485 1937 Dry Sone ...
The archaeological complex comprises the Great Enclosure, Hill Ruins, and Valley Ruins. Six columns with Zimbabwe Birds were found in the ruins. [6] Khami Ruins National Monument: Matabeleland North: 1986 365; iii, iv (cultural) Khami was the capital of the Torwa dynasty between c. 1450 – c. 1650, after Great Zimbabwe had been
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org زيمبابوي العظمى; Usage on avk.wikipedia.org Zimbabwe; Usage on az.wikipedia.org
Danamombe is the official name according to the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe and has alternative spellings Danangombe, Dananombe and Danan'ombe.. It was formerly known as Dhlo-Dhlo or Ndlo Dlo, which was the Ngoni and Ndebele name in use at the time of the British South Africa Company invasion.
The National Monuments of Zimbabwe are protected and promoted in accordance with the National Museums and Monuments Act 1972. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This law replaced the colonial-era Monuments and Relics Act 1936, which in turn replaced the 1902 Ancient Monuments Protection Ordinance and 1912 Bushmen Relics Ordinance. [ 3 ]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on af.wikipedia.org Groot-Zimbabwe; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org زيمبابوي العظمى; Usage on az.wikipedia.org
Naletale (or Nalatale) are ruins located about 25 kilometres east of Shangani in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe and east of the Danangombe ruins. [1]Naletale wall. The ruins are attributed to the Kalanga Torwa State and are thought to date from the seventeenth century, and were occupied through the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries during Rozvi rule. [2]