Search results for "Great Zimbabwe" - New World Encyclopedia

Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... to the builders who constructed Great Zimbabwe, the name given to hundreds ...

to the builders who constructed Great Zimbabwe. In the early seventeenth ... was established 350 km north of Great Zimbabwe at Mount Fura by the Zambezi. ...

The Karanga-speaking Shona people are found around Great Zimbabwe ... #039;s population today. Ruins at Great Zimbabwe, a Shona-speaking state ...

metals, particularly gold and diamonds. The great age of sub-Saharan Africa ... , Mali, Nok, Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, Benin, and Great Zimbabwe. ...

border of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, to Mozambique, where it ... Dam, which provides power to Zambia and Zimbabwe, and the Cabora-Bassa Dam ...

known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle, was ... plan on how they were going to transform Zimbabwe from an unjust to a just ...

* Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe--sometimes included in Southern Africa ... ranging from the grasslands in southern Zimbabwe to the vast Kalahari Desert ...

Rhodesia, eventually became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. ... concessions from the Limpopo River to the great lakes of Central Africa. ...

that followed the Tests, involving Zimbabwe in addition to Australia ... at an average of 22.6 on a tour to Zimbabwe, his last ODI appearances ...

that were later eclipsed by the Great Zimbabwe Empire, which spread ... to the west, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. It is ...

Rhodesia, eventually became Zambia and Zimbabwe respectively. Although Rhodes ... of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the ...

After the Bantu expansion, many of the great kingdoms of South Africa ... was established, with its capital at Great Zimbabwe. It controlled trading ...

Malawi on the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to ... was applied to the Ndebele territory of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was then divided ...

Organization (SWAPO). Namibia has made great progress since independence ... Zambezi River. That strip also borders Zimbabwe at its eastern end. ...

borders the nations of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, ... Great Britain seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1797 seeking to ...

the Guarani or Tupi words meaning "great water." Bonnie Hamre ... In addition, the waterfalls' great power feeds the Itaipu hydroelectric ...

emerged, to be eclipsed by the Great Zimbabwe Empire, which spread ... Gaborone is located on the Cape-Zimbabwe railway. Kombis and taxis ...

on the east, south, and west. The Great Rift Valley traverses the ... The Great Rift Valley runs through the country from north to south ...

Swaziland, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Comoros lie offshore ... elevations are near the borders with Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi. The ...

poles are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically Western ... that ruled over them in the city of Great Zimbabwe, which was once the centre ...

* Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – often included in Southern Africa ... Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and the Great Rift Valley, a deep gorge ...

years in Rhodesia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Belgian Congo, Angola ... descriptions and personal bias led to great controversy when he attributed ...

was full of social changes and dynamism. Great African empires and kingdoms ... characteristics from region to region. A great deal of African traditional ...

British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1925 to farm maize. ... like Blood Music by Greg Bear. He's a great writer." ...

had been administered as a UN mandate by Great Britain after the Allies ... Mengistu was granted asylum in Zimbabwe, where he still resides ...

with the European goblins. In Zimbabwe, one cause of a child being ... alter signposts, much like the pixies of Great Britain. Some believe that ...

tusks. It is estimated that consumption in Great Britain alone in 1831 amounted ... lifted. Many African countries including Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana claim ...

African politics was deeply ingrained. His great-grandfather was a senator ... handling AIDS, like our role vis-à-vis Zimbabwe. But the positives—the ...

slightly bigger heads, but there is not a great variation in cheetah sizes ... Running at speeds of 60 mph or more puts a great deal of strain on ...

When Kitchener died, the Mail reported it as a great stroke of luck ... expressing the hope that "Adolf the Great" would become a popular ...

community. At the same time, there is a great deal of similarity in the ... dance, the quintessential ritual dance of Zimbabwe. Ritual dance enforces and ...

visiting one of their daughters in Harare, Zimbabwe. ==Independence ... 1969. The main campus was situated on the Great East Road, while the medical ...

first century media arena, a position of great responsibility in an increasingly ... by the administration of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, whose government first ...

into parts of Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The only permanent river ... Derived from the Tswana word Keir, meaning the great thirst, or the ...

* The Missouri River, one of the principal rivers of the Great Plains ... * The Saint Lawrence River, which drains the Great Lakes ...

choice in numerous countries, particularly Great Britain and countries of ... India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan ...

them are Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya, the Great Rift Valley, Lakes Victoria ... Bornu, Ghana, Mali, and Songhai), Great Zimbabwe, and the Kongo. ...

of Australian identity that still looked to Great Britain, despite independence ... recognition of the internal settlement Zimbabwe Rhodesia government (Thatcher ...

luminous intelligence, high ambition, and great accomplishment, having devoted ... Helen Keller received so many awards of great distinction, an entire ...

The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ... center of the city. It was a section of the Great North Road and was so named ...

blood vessels in the lower legs are under great pressure (because of the ... itself against threats by kicking with great force. A single well-placed ...

the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ... is known as Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch ...

After the Great Reform Act, which greatly increased the number of ... apart as Singapore, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. ====Attitude ...

London or London Bridge, the tower with its Great Bell has become all bit synonymous ... did not add chimes to the clock, so the Great Clock of Westminster still ...

Throughout Great Britain, between the years of 1855 and 1898, more ... founded in 2004 to help AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe, the Sub-Saharan African ...

entities that included the civilization of Great Zimbabwe. The legacy of the Zulus is one of pride in a highly organized people who were able ...

term for Bushmen). Neither Zambia nor Zimbabwe have official terms, although ... We were nomads then, moving with the great herds of game and the changing ...

*From Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde (narrator and screenwriter), Great ... *Africa's Great Civilizations (executive producer, writer, and ...

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking ... Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe the game is usually played ...

European expansion, and the Early Medieval Great Migrations including Turkic ... about 1000 C.E. it had reached modern day Zimbabwe and South Africa. ...

of Pakistan and the Republic of India from Great Britain in 1947 and the First ... Palestine and Jordan, territories that the great powers considered required ...

known as the Peru Current, which support great populations of food fish ... south-central Africa, mainly in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana. ...

many kinds of defamation were punished with great severity. At the same time ... Reports.] Retrieved October 17, 2007. In Zimbabwe, "insulting the President ...

from recognizing the achievements of a few great empires that had ruled parts ... river and learned of the existence of a great kingdom, Kongo. In 1485, ...

mission school, on foot to Hartley in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia ... of chiefs" (more literally, "great lion," or, some would ...

Following World War II the two great powers, the United States and ... The war in Mozambique saw a great involvement of Rhodesia, supporting ...

and in several countries, intense war. The great famine that afflicted Ethiopia ... was successfully relieved but the Great North China Famine of 1877–1878 ...

was repeatedly occupied by France, and Great Britain moved to take control ... Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Zimbabwe; the N2, to Port Elizabeth ...

Westminster, London, as the Parliament of Great Britain. ... and incorporated into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801; ...

rebellion in August 1998. Troops from Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Chad, ... River, Kinshasa has a strong foundation and great potential to provide for ...

and unconditionally. All persons have great worth and should be respected ... United States of America, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ...

areas, it is often looked at as a great hope for both conservation ... " Nor do ecotourists recognize the great consumption of non-renewable ...

Eastern Europe, the Empire of Alexander the Great, the Umayyad Caliphate, the ... As late as the end of World War I, when the great powers divided the Ottoman ...

ya Masiwa2(Comorian)"The Unity of the Great Islands" ... Each of the islands has a great amount of autonomy in the Union, including ...

The empire was now global, and a source of great wealth. Between 1580 and ... On the other hand, the great voyages of exploration and the colonization ...

achievement" as of 1921 as "not great." He may have made the same comment after she retired, since she did not occupy a government ...

or space for a story. Stories involving great amounts of interpretation ... was done recklessly and maliciously. In Great Britain and other European ...

C. Clark "Smoky" Hale, The Great American Barbecue and Grilling ... in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The braais ...

The Great Rift Valley, in particular the Eastern Rift, plays a key ... are in the highlands and mountains of the Great Rift Valley, as well as Lake ...

anti-colonial struggles in Mozambique and Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) militarily ... Through A Constitutional Minefield: The Great Sharia Controversy in Nigeria ...

its eventual destruction by Alexander the Great, so the role of leader passed ... where Carthage was built, affording it great power and influence. ...

of 1884-85 among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the ... John Speke and James Grant located the great central lakes and the source ...

of rebel forces and fled to exile in Zimbabwe. The government that replaced ... of mountains and plateaus separated by the Great Rift Valley, which runs generally ...

world's longest mountain ranges, the Great Rift Valley, with fertile ... dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam fled to Zimbabwe, where he lives despite ...

1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from ... The reign of Victoria was marked by a great expansion of the British ...

was transferring an American asset of great strategic value to an unstable ... *Great Cross of the Order of Vasco Nunéz de Balboa, 1995 ...

, and even placed in the category of the great apes in terms of cognitive ... An elephant's legs are great straight pillars, as they must be ...

such as Niger to oil subsidies to Zimbabwe. Gaddafi has proposed a ... remains. The herdsmen and traders of the great Tuareg confederation are ...

of Connaught and Strathearn (her paternal great-granduncle); Princess Mary ... to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which ...

in two main clades: one to the west of the Great Rift Valley and the other ... Botswana, Angola, Katanga (Zaire), Zambia, and Zimbabwe. ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... England were united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1801 the Irish ...