Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. It was the...
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people (who would become the ethnic Shona) built the city-state of Great Zimbabwe; the city-state became one of the major African trade centres by the...
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capital, today's Masvingo (meaning Walls), which is commonly called Great Zimbabwe, is the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa. This...
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at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. The bird, first used in 1924 on the Southern Rhodesian coat of arms, symbolises the history of Zimbabwe; the red star beneath...
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Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) is an institution of higher learning in the city of Masvingo, Zimbabwe. It is currently situated on the Masvingo Teachers’...
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found in the ruins of the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe. It is now the definitive icon of independent Zimbabwe, with Matenga (2001) listing over 100 organizations...
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arms of Rhodesia. Zimbabwe law describes the coat of arms as follows: ARMS: Vert, a representation of a portion of the Great Zimbabwe proper; on a chief...
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The banknotes of Zimbabwe were physical forms of Zimbabwe's first four incarnations of the dollar ($ or Z$), from 1980 to 2009. The banknotes of the first...
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Until roughly 2,000 years ago, what would become Zimbabwe was populated by ancestors of the San people. Bantu inhabitants of the region arrived and developed...
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia (/zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ roʊˈdiːʒə, zɪmˈbɑːbwi roʊˈdiːʒə/), alternatively known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, also informally known as Zimbabwe or Rhodesia...
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