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The construction of Great Zimbabwe is also claimed by the Lemba, as documented by William Bolts in 1777 (to the Austrian Habsburg authorities), and by an A.A. Anderson (writing about his travels north of the Limpopo River in the 19th century).
The main rivers of Zimbabwe with their catchment areas. This is a list of rivers in Zimbabwe. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries ...
At Great Zimbabwe's centre was the Great Enclosure which housed royalty and had demarcated spaces for rituals, while commoners surrounded them within the second perimeter wall. The Zimbabwe state was composed of over 150 smaller zimbabwes and likely covered 50,000 km² (19,000 square miles).
Sanyati River: 43,500 km 2, North-central Zimbabwe; Kariba Gorge to C. Bassa catchment, 386200 km 2, 1166 m 3 /s (C. Bassa–Kariba Gorge): Kafue River: 154,200 km 2, 285 m 3 /s, West-central Zambia & Copperbelt; Luangwa River: 151,400 km 2, 547 m 3 /s, Luangwa Rift Valley & plateau NW of it; Panhane River: 23,897 km 2, North-central Zimbabwe ...
The Kingdom of Mapungubwe (pronounced / m ɑː ˈ p uː n ɡ uː b w eɪ / mah-POON-goob-weh) was an ancient [a] state located at the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers in South Africa, south of Great Zimbabwe. The capital's population was 5,000 by 1250, and the state likely covered 30,000 km² (12,000 square miles). [6] [1]: 50
Great Zimbabwe national monument lies close by. Rivers which feed the lake include the Mbebvi River, Matare River, Pokoteke River, Umpopinyani River, Makurumidze River and Mushagashe River. In the 1980s, drought drastically lowered the water level in the lake, but during the 1990s it recovered. The level fluctuates widely due to irrigation ...
A map of archaeological sites in Zimbabwe. Zvongombe is an archaeological site in Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe, located near the Zambezi River. It is the home of a 15th-century namesake city. It is believed to have been settled around 1450. [1] The decline of Great Zimbabwe in the 15th century led to the establishment of the Kingdom of Mutapa.
The name "Zimbabwe" stems from a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, a medieval city in the country's south-east.Two different theories address the origin of the word. Many sources hold that "Zimbabwe" derives from dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Karanga dialect of Shona as "houses of stones" (dzimba = plural of imba, "house"; mabwe = plural of ibwe, "stone").