Tributary network · approximate1450 – 1683 · 233 years
Torwa State
Overview
The Kingdom of Butua or Butwa was a Kalanga kingdom located in what is now southwestern Zimbabwe. Butua was renowned as the source of gold for Arab and Portuguese traders. The first written record of the kingdom came from Ahmad ibn Majid in 1502.
Wikipedia: Kingdom of Butua·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
- SNAPSHOT1550
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
- American Indian Wars1500–1800World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83World-changing · 5.0M dead
- French Wars of Religion1562–98World-changing · 4.0M dead
- Spanish Conquest of Mexico1519–21World-changing · 3.6M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1450 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Torwa State (1450 – 1683). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-torwa-state · Sources & methodology