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Title: | A disappointing outpost of the Portuguese empire: Sofala revisited |
Author: | Waters, Jonathan |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Heritage of Zimbabwe (ISSN 0556-9605) |
Issue: | 27 |
Pages: | 89-102 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | ills., maps |
Geographic terms: | Mozambique East Africa |
Subjects: | mercantile history history ports 1600-1699 History, Archaeology Mozambique--History Nova Sofala (Mozambique)--History |
Abstract: | In 1968 R.W. Dickinson wrote up his last account of Sofala (Mozambique) to be published in 'Rhodesiana'. Although, today, Sofala is but a pile of rather large rocks, 16th-century Sofala and its visitors were to produce the most comprehensive reports of life during this period as well as of Portuguese explorations of the interior of present-day Zimbabwe. Based on various historical as well as contemporary sources, the present author updates the state of the site of this old trading port and focal point for the Portuguese empire in southeastern Africa, following a visit to Sofala in 2008. Bibliogr., ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |