Dambarare

Dambarare , also Dandebara, today's Jumbo , about 40 kilometers north of Harare was a Portuguese trading settlement with a fortress from the 17th century in the upper valley of the Mazoe in Zimbabwe .

The Portuguese Jesuit Manuel Barreto describes the place as the "aristocratic seat" of the Karanga and "beautifully laid out". Ruins from this period can be found on the Doxford Farm site and near the Jumbo Mining. The Portuguese fortress is located on the Angwa River near the village of Mhangura .

Dambarare was destroyed in 1693 by the chief of the Rozvi, Changamire. All Portuguese and some Indian traders were killed, two Dominicans survived. The Portuguese had to give up the place and withdraw.

literature

• SIG Mudenge, Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Settlements on the Zambezi and the Dating of Rhodesian Ruins: Some reflections on the Problems of Reference Dating , The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (1977), pp. 384-393

Web links

• Agnoy on the Zambesi (1580-1759) (PDF file; 403 kB)

Coordinates: 17 ° 2 ′  S , 29 ° 58 ′  E