Tributary network · approximate1430 – 1760 · 330 years

Mutapa Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Mutapa Empire – also referred to as Mwenemutapa or Munhumutapa, – was an African empire in Zimbabwe, which expanded to what is now modern-day Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia.

Wikipedia: Mutapa Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1500
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire4

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Mutapa Internal Succession Wars1450–1530
Significant
Portuguese-Mutapa War (1568-1575)1568–75
Significant
Mutapa Revolt of 16931693–95
Significant
Battle of Massapa1572
Regional

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Cite as: Mutapa Empire (1430 – 1760). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-mutapa-empire · Sources & methodology