Kingdom of Zimbabwe

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Kingdom of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
c. 1220–1450
Coat of arms
Capital	Great Zimbabwe
Religion	Belief in Mwari
Government	Monarchy
Mambo
• c. 1220-?	Rusvingo (first)
History
• Abandonment of Mapungubwe for Zimbabwe	c. 1220
• Zimbabwe conquest of Mutapa	1430
• Abandonment of Zimbabwe for Mutapa	1450
ISO 3166 code	ZW
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Mapungubwe Kingdom of Mutapa Kingdom of Butua

Part of a series on the
History of Zimbabwe
Ancient history Leopard's Kopje c. 900 – c. 1075 Mapungubwe Kingdom c. 1075 – c. 1220 Zimbabwe Kingdom c. 1220 – c. 1450 Butua Kingdom c. 1450–1683 Mutapa Kingdom c. 1450–1760
White settlement pre-1923 Rozvi Empire c. 1684–1834 Mthwakazi 1823-1894 Rudd Concession 1888 BSA Company rule 1890–1923 First Matabele War 1893–1894 Second Matabele War 1896–1897 World War I involvement 1914–1918 Colony of Southern Rhodesia 1923–1965 World War II involvement 1939–1945 Malayan Emergency involvement 1948–1960 Federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963 Rhodesian Bush War 1964–1979 Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) 1965 Rhodesia 1965–1979 Zimbabwe-Rhodesia June–December 1979 Lancaster House Agreement December 1979 British Dependency 1979–1980 Zimbabwe 1980–present Gukurahundi 1982–1987 Second Congo War 1998–2003 Coup d'état 2017
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The Kingdom of Zimbabwe (c. 1220–1450) was a medieval Shona kingdom located in modern-day Zimbabwe. Its capital, today's Masvingo (meaning Walls), which is commonly called Great Zimbabwe, is the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa. This kingdom came about after the collapse of the Kingdom of Mapungubwe.