Tributary network · approximate1684 – 1834 · 150 years

Rozvi 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 Rozvi Empire, was a Shona state established by Changamire Dombo on the Zimbabwean Plateau. 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.

Wikipedia: Rozvi Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

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

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT1750
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire2

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

Torwa-Changamire War1683–96
Significant
Mutapa Revolt of 16931693–95
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1684 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Rozvi Empire (1684 – 1834). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-rozvi-empire · Sources & methodology