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	Monomotapa - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In old maps of south-east Africa, derived originally from Portuguese and from Dutch sources, an extensive region on the Cuama or Zambezi and to the south of it is styled regnum monomotapae.
		But such scepticism is unjustifiable in view of the perfect unanimity with which, in spite of variations of detail, all Portuguese writers from the beginning of the 16th century onwards reiterated the assertion that there was a powerful rule known far and wide by that title.
		Lusiads X. 93) sufficiently demonstrate that the monomotapa, though susceptible to the persuasion of foreigners, was an independent potentate in the 16th century.
	11.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONOMOTAPA.htm (611 words)

	Phoenician Gold Mines of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
		Wilmot, in Monomotapa (P. 77), writes: "So far as it is possible to judge, it seems probable that it was the people of Saba (the Himyarites) who landed on the coast of Sofala, penetrated to the mines, and established a colony there." To concrete Mr.
		Having stated in outline the arguments in support of the theory of the Himyaritic occupation of Monomotapa, we come to consider, also in outline, the arguments in favour of the subsequent occupation of Monomotapa by the Phoenician Canaanites.
		In occupying Monomotapa, they introduced fresh features in building, as shown not only by new Zimbabwes, which they themselves are believed to have erected in Monomotapa, but by the extensions and reconstructions of the original Zimbabwes.
	www.phoenicia.org /zimbabwe.html (5438 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monomotapa
		Theal, "is attached to this word Monomotapa, inasmuch as it was placed on maps of the day as if it were the name of a territory, not the title of a ruler, and soon it was applied to the entire region from the Zambesi to the mouth of the Fish River.
		Geographers, who knew nothing of the country, wrote the word upon their charts and one copied another until the belief became general that a people far advanced in civilization, and governed by a mighty emperor, occupied the whole of southeastern Africa.
		In the fifteenth century it was united and powerful, but, when the Portuguese arrived in 1505 it was in a state of disruption, as the reigning Monomotapa, Makomba by name, had delegated his authority over the more distant part of his dominions to members of his family who soon asserted their independence.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10489a.htm (443 words)

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