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Kingdom of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe | |||||||||||
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c. 1220–1450 | |||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
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History of Zimbabwe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ancient history
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White settlement pre-1923
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The Kingdom of Zimbabwe (c. 1220–1450) was a medieval Shona kingdom located in modern-day Zimbabwe. Its capital, today's Masvingo (meaning Walls), which is commonly called Great Zimbabwe, is the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa. This kingdom came about after the collapse of the Kingdom of Mapungubwe.