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Rozvi Empire
Rozvi
1660–1866[1]
Map showing the extent of the Rozvi empire and its center around Butwa
Status
Kingdom
Capital
Danangombe
Common languages
Shona (Karanga)
Religion
Musikism
Government
Absolute Monarchy
Changamire
• c. 1660 – c. 1695
Changamire Dombo(first)
• 1831–1866
Changamire Tohwechipi
History
• Rozvi conquest of Butua
1660
• Surrender of Tohwechipi
1866[1]
Area
1700[2]
620,000 km2 (240,000 sq mi)
Population
• 1700[2]
1,000,000
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Butua
Mutapa Empire
Mthwakazi
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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The Rozvi Empire (1500–1866) was a Shona state established on the Zimbabwean Plateau by Changamire Dombo. The term "Rozvi" refers to their legacy as a warrior nation, taken from the Shona term kurozva, "to plunder". They became the most powerful fighting force in the whole of Zimbabwe.[3]
^Innocent Pikirayi et Joseph O. Vogel, The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States, Rowman & Littlefield - Altamira Press, 2001
^ abCornell, James (1978). Lost Lands and Forgotten People. Sterling Publishing Company. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-8069-3926-1. Zimbabwe continued to grow, reaching the height of its power in 1700, under the rule of the Rozwi people. When the first Europeans arrived on the African coast, they heard tales of a great stone city, the capital of a vast empire. The tales were true, for the Rozwi controlled 240,000 square miles [...] More than one million Africans lived under Rozwi rule.
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