Bellin, Jacques Nicolas: Empire du Monomotapa et Etats Voisins Tiré de M. Delisle et autres Auteurs

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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas : Empire du Monomotapa et Etats Voisins Tiré de M. Delisle et autres Auteurs

Paris, 1755.

210 x 290mm. Coloured.

Map of southern Africa covering mainly the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the area of the the Empire of Great Zimbabwe (c.1450-1629). Its capital was the 'Great Zimbabwe', marked here as 'Zimbaoe'. The basis of its wealth were the numerous gold mines marked on the map (often believed to be the mines of King Solomon), but when these gave out they turned to slave trading with the Portuguese of the Mozambique ports.

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