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Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
c. 1220–1450
Coat of arms
Capital
Great Zimbabwe
Religion
Belief in Mwari
Government
Monarchy
Mambo
• c. 1220-?
Rusvingo (first)
History
• Abandonment of Mapungubwe for Zimbabwe
c. 1220
• Zimbabwe conquest of Mutapa
1430
• Abandonment of Zimbabwe for Mutapa
1450
ISO 3166 code
ZW
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Mapungubwe
Kingdom of Mutapa
Kingdom of Butua
Part of a series on the
History of Zimbabwe
Ancient history
Leopard's Kopje
c. 900 – c. 1075
Mapungubwe Kingdom
c. 1075 – c. 1220
Zimbabwe Kingdom
c. 1220 – c. 1450
Butua Kingdom
c. 1450–1683
Mutapa Kingdom
c. 1450–1760
White settlement pre-1923
Rozvi Empire
c. 1684–1834
Mthwakazi
1823-1894
Rudd Concession
1888
BSA Company rule
1890–1923
First Matabele War
1893–1894
Second Matabele War
1896–1897
World War I involvement
1914–1918
Colony of Southern Rhodesia
1923–1965
World War II involvement
1939–1945
Malayan Emergency involvement
1948–1960
Federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland
1953–1963
Rhodesian Bush War
1964–1979
Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)
1965
Rhodesia
1965–1979
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
June–December 1979
Lancaster House Agreement
December 1979
British Dependency
1979–1980
Zimbabwe
1980–present
Gukurahundi
1982–1987
Second Congo War
1998–2003
Coup d'état
2017
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