Atlas Entry

Great Zimbabwe

Ụbọchị
c. 1100–1450 CE

Ụdị ihe akaebe: Documented history

Ọ dịbeghị na Asụsụ Igbo. Na-egosi nke mbụ n'asụsụ English.

The stone city near Masvingo that gave Zimbabwe its name. Built between about 1100 and 1450 CE by the ancestors of the Shona, it was the capital of a powerful trading state. Its three parts are the Hill Ruins, the Great Enclosure with its conical tower, and the Valley Ruins.

Example of what you can see: walls of cut granite blocks laid in regular courses, enclosing family compounds of clay (daga) houses.